> It is also is a stand-alone command to interpret Tcl scripts.  I'd guess
> Tcl was the original source of source and was adopted by BASH and other
> shells afterwards.  I don't know anything about Tcl but maybe it has a
> group of functions along the lines of file-type file-name.
> 

I'd find that remarkably difficult to believe, since I was using
"source" in /bin/sh about eight years before the first release of Tcl.



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