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In the 1990s, when Tcl was taking off, there was really nothing else that made it as convenient to glue together different C libraries and slap a (Tk-based) GUI
by an1sotropy 5y ago
In the 1990s, when Tcl was taking off, there was really nothing else that made it as convenient to glue together different C libraries and slap a (Tk-based) GUI on it. It was a welcome revelation, compared to XWindows programming.
In the 1990s.
- gilbetron 5y agoYeah, my first encounters was the early 90s, where I wrote a gene sequencing support system with TCL/TK - it was pretty fun and worked pretty well, but there wasn't a lot available in the space. Python was still being dreamed up, bash wasn't up for it, and otherwise you had Fortran/C/C++/Pascal/Lisp. Fast forward 20 years and I found myself using it again, but it felt silly compared to the now-mature Python, Lua, PHP, and Ruby.