Both Richard Hipp and Salvatore Sanfillipo came out of the Tcl community. SQLite was originally just a Tcl extension (and may I say, SQLite's Tcl binding is a

Both Richard Hipp and Salvatore Sanfillipo came out of the Tcl community. SQLite was originally just a Tcl extension (and may I say, SQLite's Tcl binding is a dream to use). In a nutshell, they were already using Tcl because they found it useful.