[Everything is a string].

[unknown]

[trace]

[send]

[introspection]

[the idea of scripting]

[event-oriented programming]

simplicity

slave [interp]reters

temporal arithmetic:  Among the [Tcl testimonials] is
[Tony Summerfelt]'s that, 
"if i need a program that does any kind of heavy duty date
manipulation
I use tcl.  The [clock] command is easily my favorite in tcl."















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