Version 8 of Things pushing Tcl forward

While the Things holding Tcl back may raise valid points, this page was created to make sure the optimistic side of things is not left behind.

Tcl has been progressing over the years for several reasons:

an enthusiastic community [L1 ]
friendly discussion and help on comp.lang.tcl
many (?) people working on the Tcl/Tk core
active technical discussions on the chat [L2 ]
a wiki with lots and lots of gems
a license which supports sharing and reuse
copy on write, everything is a string, file events
Tk, Expect, and more
an implementation which has established a record through the years as a model of high-quality coding
a very clever, subtle initial design, perhaps as important for what it left out as what it put in.

While I raised the concern of oo, db etc on the other page, let me be the first to enthusiastically say I love TCL! Written well, its extremely flexible, quickly developed , and ultimately legible post implementation, unlike other scripting languages you might be aware of. ;)

My thanks to the TCT for continuing to run through the versions, adding great features along the way (regexp package improvements!) and not letting this great scripting language die.

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