TCL Full Form Name
Full Form of TCL:
Tool Command Language
TCL Full Form is Tool
Command Language. TCL is a powerful and easy to learn scripting, a
programming language developed by John Ousterhout. TCL gained acceptance over
the period of years because of its usage and popularity. It is used for rapid
prototyping, GUIs, testing & scripted applications. TCL can be used on
several embedded systems platforms. Its applications are diverse one can use it
for the web, desktop, networking, administration, testing etc. Tool Kit (Tk) is
a related program of TCL, which helps to create and format a GUI with TCL.
This command language works on
all modern operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. TCL is
string based language with a few object-oriented extensions. The various
scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Lua, PHP, Ruby etc. are competitors
of TCL. It also shares some similarities with the C language.
TCL is not statically typed; each
variable can contain integers, strings, floats, list, dictionaries values,
command names are reinterpreted as a type on demand the values, however, are
absolute. TCL is a highly dynamic language and provides useful introspection
facilities. It enables one to write efficient and elegant programs without any
hindrance, unlike other programming languages.
Advantages of TCL
1.
Strong, well-tested code base
2.
Unicode string enables international support
3.
Simple Syntax
4.
Fully dynamic, class-based system
5.
No reserved keywords
6.
Cross-platform availability: Mac, Unix, Windows
7.
The open and closed source use such as GPL because of the BSD
license
8.
Community support with the help of wiki, chats or newsroom