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luser001 on Dec 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tcl the misunderstood (2006)

I would make a distinction between a CLI (to be used by ordinary users of the program) and a scripting interface (to be used to "extend" the program, to be used by power users and/or other programmers).

And I would further submit that the same language may not be the right choice for both tasks.

Tcl leans further towards being a pleasant CLI interface language, while AFAIK Lua leans further towards being a pleasant plugin development language.

IMHO.

bch on Dec 17, 2012 [–]

tclsh is a REPL (Read/Eval/Print Loop) coded against libtcl. libtcl is _easily_ integrated into any C (C++) development project. tclsh is but one.

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