Many people reach this page as, for example, http://mini.net/tcl/misdirection . That URL was misdirected for almost twenty-four hours, though, on 10 and 11 October 2001. The story of what happened illustrates both the fragility and resilience of Tcl, Wikis, and the Tcl developer community.
As there's particular interest in what happened among German-speakers, a translation appears under the title "...".
"What is Tcl"? Tcl is a programming language--not as well-known as C or Java, but widely-used in many countries for many tasks, some of them quite important: management of television networks, control of aspects of space-flight, generation of billions of Web pages, and so on (see "Your social contribution as a Tcl'er" for more).
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