George Peter Staplin: It's interesting to me how the vernacular of some groups is to spell the language as Tcl, while others use TCL. I'm not sure when Tcl became the name. Going back to the archives of Tcl I find that the oldest distributation available on SourceForge is tcl2.1.sysv. In the README file Ousterhout uses the term "Tcl." ([1]) Even though it stands for "Tool Command Language" in some way.
Perl at one time stood for "Practical Extraction and Report Language," but most people spell it Perl. It's usually pronounced like the word Pearl.
How should one pronounce Tcl? Most programmers say "tickle." You *may* find that people won't take you seriously if you say that, so T-C-L or "Tool Command Language" may work better in such cases.
A similar argument is how to pronounce Linux. Some say "Lie nux," while others use "lee nux" or "lin ux."
Does it really matter?
LES I can't take seriously the argument that "people won't take you seriously if you say tickle". That's the language's name, I even have been told that the logo is a feather because "it tickles", so what do we have feel ashamed about? I think that Tcl is very overlooked and/or underrated, but I don't think the name has anything to do with it.
PWQ Les: I never use tickle and always use T-C-L. While the computer nerds may get off on the cutism's that they introduce, in the real world you have to relate to non computer people. Their association of the word tickle is not one that I want to portray in attempting to convince people that I am a competent programmer that can create a robust system and get them to part with their money.
Do people say IBM or I-B-M? P-H-P?. Would you employ someone who was en expert in fluffy?, what about brainfuck, or orgasmatic?
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