In 1997, client-side programming was very much up in the air: > Imagine a powerful, platform-independent language that lets you put a full GUI interface on Web

In 1997, client-side programming was very much up in the air: > Imagine a powerful, platform-independent language that lets you put a full GUI interface on Web page. This language has built-in security features, lots of free development tools and libraries, and is available free from Sun Microsystems. Java, you're thinking? Wrong. I'm talking about the Tool Control Language (Tcl, pronounced "tickle") in the form of a browser plug-in for Navigator 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0. Both the language and plug-in are produced by the Sun Microsystems SunScript group. But, you're thinking, what could Tcl possibly do for me that HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Java, Visual Basic, SQL, C/C++, and Perl don't? Read on. * https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webtech/1997/12/junk/index.html https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webtech/1997/12/... (Though doing a search for "Tcl" also gets a lot of results for the electronics company.)