From: Kevin K. <kev...@gm...> - 2024-07-26 19:35:44
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It was a visual pun, intentionally with both meanings. (The quill-for-scripting, and the 'tee-see-ell' pronunciation, were perhaps more 'professional', but Tcl'ers are a quirky bunch.) On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 11:03 AM Da Silva, Peter J Collins < pet...@fl...> wrote: > I don’t see any reason to get rid of the feather. > > I always assumed the feather was a quill, and carried a connotation of > “scribe” because it was a “scripting” language. The “tickle”/”feather” > association is utterly new to me, I don’t think I have encountered it > before and I have been using TCL since the earliest days. > _______________________________________________ > Tcl-Core mailing list > Tcl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-core > -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin |