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The acronym is true but the community uses Tcl now and has for quite a while.
by sigzero 11y ago
The acronym is true but the community uses Tcl now and has for quite a while.
- amyjess 11y agoStuff like this intrigues me, from a linguistic perspective. I'm really curious what lead to the community settling on this. You'll occasionally see all-lowercase in some projects thanks to the fact that *nix commands are usually all-lowercase, but title-casing an acronym is weird. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because "Tcl" is typically pronounced as a word ("tickle"), so it got de-acronymized like "radar" or "scuba". Then again, nobody writes SCSI as Scsi. I'd love to study this some more...
- davidw 11y agoMy guess: it's kind of a fashion thing. FORTRAN and COBOL and FORTH and whatnot are a bit old fashioned looking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Naming