ALSO CALLED: Tool Command Language DEFINITION: Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpretedscript language developed by Dr. John Ousterhout at the University of California, Berkeley, and now developed and maintained by Scriptics. Tcl is comparable to:
The UNIX-derived Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
IBM's Restructured Extended Executor
In general, script languages are easier and faster to code in than the more structured, compiled languages such as C and C++. Script languages are sometimes considered good "glue" languages for tying several compiled programs together. Or, as stand-alone programs, they can allow you to create simple but powerful … Tcl definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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