Version 3 of ActiveState

Updated 2002-02-22 17:57:08

ActiveState Corp., Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.ActiveState.com/ announced on Feb 26, 2001 that "Tcl finds a home" [L1 ]. Excerpts:

ActiveState, the leader in open source programming languages, announced today the addition of Tcl to the languages they support. In addition to providing supported versions of Tcl, core Tcl consulting and Tcl development tools, ActiveState will also soon be hosting the primary Tcl community website. ... As part of this initiative, prominent Tcl developer, Jeff Hobbs, has joined ActiveState as the Tcl technical lead. Jeff is the maintainer of the Tk Usage FAQ and is a program committee member for the USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference. Previously Jeff was with Scriptics, where he was the Tcl ambassador, responsible for liaising with the Tcl community and managing development of the Tcl core.

"I'm keen to continue working full time on Tcl development," said Jeff Hobbs, Senior Developer, ActiveState. "This is great news for the Tcl community since ActiveState can devote significant resources to Tcl development."

ASs summary on the Tcl initiative: http://www.ActiveState.com/Initiatives/Tcl.html


One of the products is Komodo, a Mozilla-based IDE.

ActiveState "productizes" two bundles for Tcl developers: ActiveTcl (no charge) (without Komodo or TclPro, but "batteries-included"); and ASPN Tcl, which includes Komodo, TclPro, and support in its $495 price.


CL supplied background on ActiveState in articles on a Perl plugin ([L2 ] and [L3 ]) and ...


" http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/ " is a Purl for "http://tcl.activestate.com/ " (thanks to LV).

Note that thanks to David Welton we the community now have http://www.tcl-tk.net/ and http://www.tcl-tk.org/ too. Both refer to the site above, i.e. "http://tcl.activestate.com/ "


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