Tkinter[0] was apparently released in 1994, so mildly interesting he didn't say "Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like other programming languages."

[0] https://grokipedia.com/page/Tkinter

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kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not really ported. tkinter just builds a full Tcl interpreter as a Python extension and passes command strings over to it. This is the use case Tcl was designed for. You can get access to the underlying Tcl instance and issue non-Tk commands.

	▲	bch an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Technically correct (the best kind of "correct"). My next question to myself was what hardware was running Tcl in c.1997 Cisco equipment? What porting effort was required? I understand there was some proprietary feature work for Cisco IOS, but I don't know what architectural work was required.