I first encountered TCL embedded deep within an electronics [CAD] package, and without any experience in TCL, managed to figure out how to write a small [proc] to simply design testing by running a signal pattern test at varyied periods and levels.  It was about a year before I would take a second look at the language, and have found it quite to my liking since for all manner of tasks.

Unlike [Perl], TCL is actually quite readable, and still retains an impressive degree of flexability, letting me do what I need to do.  I like it.  :)

'''Programming History:''' I started programming back in about '86, on a trusty home PC, the Apple ][+.  I was usually found writing little Applesoft BASIC programs, instead of doing my grade 5 homework (or sometimes, even in class if an idea hit me).  I touched on Assembler (by poking hand-compiled binary data into memory), though without any decent reference books, didn't get very far at that stage.  I migrated from there to AmigaBASIC on a wonderful machine known as the Amiga A1000 from Commodore (also touching briefly on their rather scary C64), and moving from there onto a little real Assembler programming.  Later on I migrated to an Intel "IBM-compatible" 286 PC, starting off in QBASIC (again), then moving on to Borland Pascal (from versions 5 through 7), adding in embedded Assembler along with way.  That led on to full Assember programming, and back again to blending Borland Pascal UI's with fully Assembler workhorse libraries.  When I hit University, Win95 was only just getting about, and I was still using Win3.11 at home.  At that time, Unix was a breath of fresh air.  Real multitasking, process management, and loads of other wonders.  With Unix, I found C (and C++), and finally for the first time, no BASIC.  University also introduced me to the wonders of several other interpreted languages (but no TCL).  Since then, though I know more about Windows than I care to, and are starting to look at cross-platform programming, I've been almost purely Linux, using C or TCL.  And that is where I am today.

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