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I'm probably misreading this article. I've always known TCL as the quick-and-dirty user interface of choice. I guess that's not the focus here.

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I honestly doubt you clicked the link at all before commenting, and likewise doubt that you've actually had any first-hand exposure to Tcl in the past.

You SEEM to be referencing the "Tk" portion of Tcl/Tk. Tk is the desktop GUI framework that comes with most distributions of Tcl. But it has no apparent relevance to this or any other Tcl-based web framework.

This is kinda like dismissing a Java server-side web framework because Swing is ugly, or dismissing C# on the web because you don't like WPF.

Okay, happy to admit when I'm not fully informed, and this is one of those times. I have interacted with TCL/TK and have made small programs with it, but I have not used TCL directly in the past. In fact, did not even realize TCL was a full language. When I read this article, given my background with TCL/TK, I understood it to be a web framework using a weird desktop GUI... which would be quite odd.

Yes, when I did something like that nearly 20 years ago it was quite odd! But turned out to be terribly useful for us at the time. (Google 'proxytk' if you're curious)

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