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by pjmlp 1398 days ago
Unfortunately we were a tiny Lisbon startup with our own in-house clone of AOL Server and Tcl was never a hyped language, otherwise I don't really see what it does better.

Our Tcl ORM was doing Sybase, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Oracle and even Access, across Windows 2000/NT, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, in 1999 - 2002.

But we never went big into US, so Rails gets the credits.

And we were not alone in this regard, there was Vignette, Cold Fusion, Zope,...