Tcl ''is'' a "toy language" in that it's simple, children learn it,
it's handy for very small programming, ...

Tcl is far more than a toy language, though, for the people who
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Anyone else think that Tcl might be taken more seriously were it not for the slightly childish "tickle" name? --[Andrew Cates]

[MSW] I don't think the name is a problem at all: Consider JAVA, RUBY, PERL, PYTHON ...

([TV] "Tool Command Language" strikes me as one of the more sensible names in computerworld as know, I don't see the problem. Tickle is maybe childish, maybe apt, but I've always seen TCL as simply an acronym.
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The problem is lack of a hero, and marketing.  Also, perhaps worth noting are the eternal in-community battles over lack of complex, 2-dimensional arrays, speed issues (is this still true?), 
and OO (lets not get into it here).

How can TCL get a public face-lift?  
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Actually, I think the opposite may in fact be true. Tickle would be a cuter, warmer name 
(like Java, Python etc.), whereas Tcl looks like something IBM would invent.  --[Setok]

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