Well being a creature of enthusiasm, Hypnotoad tends to have a lot of ideas. Here are some that he's working on:
* Assemble todo list (ongoing) * Touch up the /tcl page to be a bit more newcomer friendly * Conference Paper on Taodbi - A general purpose database interface for code * Conference Paper on Taourl - A web development system that uses TAO and Taodbi to generate dynamic content * "The Game" a killer app/fun introduction/fun to play game writting in TCL to get the kiddies hooked
Elevator Spiel for Tcl:
Tcl
What is TCL?
Well TCL is a Chinease manufacturer of television sets.
What is Tcl?
Well, beyond the motivation for this website, Tcl is a rapid-prototyping environment. Beyond simple scripts, Tcl has been adapted to run webservers, robotic manufacturing equipment, even spacecraft. Tcl is bundled with every major Linux Distro, OS X, even Cisco routers. Odds are that you have probably used a Tcl/Tk application and never even knew it. (If you've watched NBC since 1998, you've seen a Tcl app on screen.)
Don’t believe me? If you are anything other than windows, open a command line and type “tclsh”. If you have Windows, go ahead and download Tcl/Tk first.
All this power may sound a little daunting to learn. No worries, TCL is extremely simple to program. There are but 12 rules a coder needs to be familiar with to competently program in it. This power and simplicity makes it an essential tool for many systems.
If all that were not enough, TCL has a powerful GUI construction tool called TK. Tcl/Tk quietly runs a lot of day to day utilities under Linux. If you’ve ever compiled the kernel using Xconfig, that’s a Tk app.