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Always happy to see these guys in the news. The site is powered by Apache Rivet, which I helped work on. It never saw wide adoption, so the one big user always makes me pleased that it did take off somewhere.

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oof, Tcl. props, but oof.

Tcl is a very nice language in many ways, both in terms of the language itself, and the extremely solid implementation.

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

Great article on Tcl, I wasn't familiar with it before but the event driven model and the ease of network programming is really appealing.

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