[mhd]

I really liked programming in Tcl way back when. The ease of producing utility UI programs with Tk was a benefit even if the main part of the program was purely server-based (I used it for data management, reporting etc.).

And while the language had its warts, the syntax was relatively easy to comprehend, so even if things went southwards, it didn't take long to see where you made your mistakes. As long as you didn't upvar and uplevel the heck out of it.

Also very easy to create DSLs with it and drop down to C if you needed a function to be a bit faster.

Tcl would be a lot more popular if it weren't for Sun's divided interests, and if they managed to get something CPAN/GEM/NPM-ish up waaaaaay earlier.

[nazri1]

> Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It’s written in tcl/tk.

Source: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk

Actual tcl source: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitk-git/gitk