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Tcl (pronounced 'tickle' or tee cee ell /ˈtiː siː ɛl/) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was designed with the goal of being very simple but powerful. Tcl casts everything into the mold of a command, even programming constructs like variable assignment and procedure definition. Tcl supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming or procedural styles. Tcl (pronounced 'tickle' or tee cee ell /ˈtiː siː ɛl/) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was designed with the goal of being very simple but powerful. Tcl casts everything into the mold of a command, even programming constructs like variable assignment and procedure definition. Tcl supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming or procedural styles. It is commonly used embedded into C applications, for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs, and testing. Tcl interpreters are available for many operating systems, allowing Tcl code to run on a wide variety of systems. Because Tcl is a very compact language, it is used on embedded systems platforms, both in its full form and in several other small-footprint versions. The popular combination of Tcl with the Tk extension is referred to as Tcl/Tk, and enables building a graphical user interface (GUI) natively in Tcl. Tcl/Tk is included in the standard Python installation in the form of Tkinter. The Tcl programming language was created in the spring of 1988 by John Ousterhout while working at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally 'born out of frustration', according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own. Ousterhout was awarded the ACM Software System Award in 1997 for Tcl/Tk. The name originally comes from Tool Command Language, but is conventionally spelled 'Tcl' rather than 'TCL'. Tcl conferences and workshops are held in both the United States and Europe.