Re: Finding a niche for Tcl

On 2006-10-16, Larry W. Virden <lvirden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For years, there has been the debate concerning marketing of Tcl, Tcl's
"dying" reputation, etc.

I'm a newbie...and I'm curious -- why has Tcl fallen from grace? I'm *not*
a professional programmer, nor a young student, but just a middle-aged geek
wannabe. I've come over from Perl, and so far (3 days worth of online
tutorials) I find Tcl charming as well as quite capable for most applications.
What happened to its reputation? Is it simply that Java and OOP have gotten
all the attention from the IT/IS managers?

Just curious -- and please *no* flame wars. I simply want to get up to speed!
--
duke
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