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Also known as Tool Command Language

scripting language

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Paradigm
Multi-paradigm : event-driven , functional , imperative , object-oriented
Designed by
John Ousterhout
Developer
Tcl Core Team
First appeared
1988 ; 38 years ago ( 1988 )
Stable release
9.0.3 / 13 November 2025 ; 6 months ago ( 13 November 2025 )
Typing discipline
Dynamic typing , everything is a string
Implementation language
C , Tcl
License
BSD -style
Filename extensions
.tcl, .tbc
Website
www .tcl-lang .org

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Wikidata facts

Official website
tcl.tk
Image
Eclipse-dltk-itcl en fedora 11 con KDE 4.2.4.png
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publication date
1988-01-01
Commons category
Tcl programming language family
software version identifier
9.0.3
source code repository URL
core.tcl-lang.org/tcl
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com/tags/tcl
file extension
tbc
inception
1988-01-01
media type
application/x-tcl
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Tcl (pronounced as an acronym, /ˈtɪk(ə)l/, like tickle, or as an initialism, /ˌtiːˌsiːˈɛl/, like T-C-L; originally Tool Command Language) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was designed with the goal of being very simple but powerful. Tcl casts everything into the mold of a command, even programming constructs like variable assignment and procedure definition. Tcl supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional, and procedural styles.

It is commonly embedded into C applications for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs, and testing. Tcl interpreters are available for many operating systems, allowing Tcl code to run on a wide variety of systems. Because Tcl is a very compact language, it is used on embedded systems platforms, both in its full form and in several other small-footprint versions.

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