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Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language
Features
- Familiar C-like Syntax
- Structs, lists, arrays, hashes
- Perl regexp: buf =~ /.*foo/, I/O: while (buf = <>)
- No memory management (reference counted)
- Compiles to Tcl byte codes, Little can call Tcl, Tcl can call Little
- Full access to Tcl runtime and libraries
- Full access to Tk graphical toolkits
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