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I Just Want to Write My Code in Tcl

“I don’t want a pickle, I just want to ride on my motor-cicle” –Arlo Guthrie This is a bit more fanciful…

Tcl is an ideal language for scripting, testing, and rapid prototyping. And millions of developers around the world rely on…

I recently did a webinar with Jay Lyman, Research Manager at 451 Research, discussing the trends in open source programming…

Much of the information found in this blog is now outdated. It is being kept for historical purposes. If you…

Even though the Tcl/Tk-based UI module called tkinter is a fairly standard part of the community and ActivePython distributions and has been…

People have been asking me, “What’s happening to ActiveState now, after the sale of Stackato business (our private PaaS business)…

When we speak to ISVs, aerospace/defense contractors, or hardware manufacturers that have software interfaces – many of them like to…

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d share some of the reasons why I and other Tclers use Tcl…

Dynamic languages have the reputation of being great for quick prototyping of an application, or for quick “duct tape” fixes…

We conducted some polls during our webinar, Smooth Transitions: Using Tcl 8.5 and upgrading to Tcl 8.6 and have the…

Now that this year’s Google Summer of Code has ended, it’s time for Matthew and me as admins for the…

Last month we asked our developer community to share with us which test frameworks they are using today–with some interesting…