Purpose: pointers to tutorials, books, tips, etc. for creating, interacting, etc. [Tcl] via the C API.

Tcl's original purpose, as detailed in [John Ousterhout]'s seminal Usenix paper (see [Ousterhout's original 1990 USENIX paper]), was to provide a developer with a standard language that could be embedded in their application. So, in the beginning, the intent was that Tcl would be accessed only via the [C] [API].  Over the years, it also became common to extend rather than embed Tcl.


See also:

   * [Hello World as a C extension]
   * [Adding Tk to an existing Xt program]
   * [Experiences with a custom tclsh]
   * [Extending Tcl]
   * [Extending Tcl in C from Tcl]
   * [How to embed Tcl in C applications]
   * [Combining Fortran and Tcl in one program]
   * [Tcl_Init]
   * [TEA]
   * [Building an extension for Tcl under Mac OS X]
   * [Building Tcl DLL's for Windows]




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