Acronym of TCL

( Tool Control Language ) Language Tcl (language control) derived research John Ousterhout on the tools, computer design electrical circuits at the University of Berkeley. In this research, Ousterhout, and Madrid were forced for each of these tools is a control language, a separate design. but, because more attention to their tools (not the language), the tools generally, the languages of control weak. In the autumn of 1987, in the laboratory, company, DEC, this idea came to mind Ousterhout came when a language decree significant embedded (Emdeddable Command Language) design. A language (Interpreted) well, that could be as a library package in diverse applications used. The goal was that the language interpreter, a set of basic facilities (such as variables and control structures) provide each of the tools using it can features about your comment to add it. Ousterhout in 1988, after returning from the lab DEC, work on Tcl began, and the first version of it in a text processor (Text Editor) graphics to work. At first this work only the aspect of the research was and Ousterhout suspect did not follow the others to allow it interested.

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