The Birth of Tcl
The article doesn&#x27;t discuss how Sun turned away from Tcl and embraced Java instead (understandable since it focuses on Tcl).<p>It&#x27;s interesting because Sun had the same goals for Tcl as they did for Java (or vice-versa!): &quot;<i>evolve Tcl into a universal scripting language for the Internet</i>&quot;, &quot;<i>allows untrusted scripts to be evaluated safely</i>&quot;, &quot;<i>Tcl plugin, so that Tcl scripts can be evaluated in a Web browser</i>&quot;.<p>Ousterhout spun Tcl out of Sun in late 1997, which feels like the timeline when Sun was turning to Java.<p>Is there insider history available anywhere on how and why that transition happened? I can certainly imagine that performance and expressivity were a concern.