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I clicked through to these comments expecting that it would be full of discussion about eggdrop bots, as that was where I experienced tcl. To learn that it is h

I clicked through to these comments expecting that it would be full of discussion about eggdrop bots, as that was where I experienced tcl. To learn that it is heavily used at places such as Intel for tooling controls was very interesting to me. I still maintain a bot that began life as a mirc script, then a long time as an eggdrop bot, then ported to python based slackbot, and now most recently a python based discord bot. Over the last 25 years it really has been a huge part of the way my group of friends interact. I recall the sheer wonder that I experienced when I learned about eggdrop bots and the huge amount that I learned while flailing around with tcl.

johnisgood 5y ago
> To learn that it is heavily used at places such as Intel for tooling controls was very interesting to me. Same! It is quite interesting, I have not heard of it before. My first experience with Tcl was through Eggdrop. I was really young at the time! I remember those mIRC scripts and different mIRC clients or something, they may have been through plugins? I don't recall, but I remember after installing them my mIRC looked very different and so on. After Eggdrop came Supybot which was really popular at the time, then after that I just made my own. I have a Discord bot as well, I made it myself, although it is written in Lua because I made it around the time I was tinkering around with the language. A more recent experience with Tcl was modifying Tclsh to make it suitable to be used as a replacement for bash. It works quite well now, I would say. Actually, a friend of mine did most of the job but still!