Chapter 3
Introduction to the Tcl Language
The next five chapters constitute a Tcl language tutorial. This chapter provides an overview of the Tcl syntax, data structures, and enough commands to develop applications. Chapter 4 discusses Tcl I/O support for files, pipes, and sockets. Chapters 5–8 introduce more commands and techniques and provide examples showing how Tcl data constructs can be used to create complex data constructs such as structures and trees. Chapters 9 and 10 introduce the TclOO object-oriented support package and explain some tricks in using dynamic and introspective object-oriented programming effectively.
This introduction to the Tcl language will give you an overview of how to use Tcl, rather than be a complete listing ...
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