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John Ousterhout, then a professor at the University of California,
Berkeley, created the Tcl programming language to embed in
applications he was writing.  He realized that it made more sense to
create one good control language, and package it is a library, than to
create individual languages for each of his programs.  These origins
explain a lot about Tcl, as we will see...


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