The best computer programmers are astonishingly more productive than average.
They use good tools, and they use them well.
Clif Flynt’s Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide, 2E helps you improve your effectiveness
as a developer in both these ways. Tcl is a software language with a great “return
on investment”—it achieves portable, powerful, economical results with great
economy. Just a few lines of Tcl are enough to create interesting and useful
applications.
Clif draws on his own deep experience as a front-line developer to help you get
the most out of Tcl. He writes clearly and has organized his book with instructive
examples that teach the essentials of Tcl. He covers the right material too; Tcl/Tk:
A Developer’s Guide packs in not just such long-standing Tcl strengths as its easy
networking and graphical user interface but also the latest breakthroughs with
internationalization, widget upgrades, and StarPacks. Want to take your program-
ming “to the next level”? Get Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide.
—Cameron Laird, Vice President, Phaseit, Inc.
and author of “Regular Expressions” column
Clif Flynt’s book Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide, 2E demonstrates a true mastery of
the Tcl programming language, which he ably transmits to the reader in a form
that is easy to comprehend and apply immediately to real-world problems. The
examples are very clear to read, yet thorough, complete, and relate well to practical
situations where the techniques displayed would prove useful. In particular, the
sections dealing with data structures, such as lists, arrays, and namespaces, merit
special mention for showing the power of Tcl to perform the most complex of
tasks. In short, [this is] a great reference that will help readers of all levels under-
stand not just what Tcl does but how to get things done with Tcl.
—David N. Welton, a Vice President of Apache Tcl with
the Apache Software Foundation
Clif ’s book is both a pleasure to read and a useful reference… . I’m sure you’ll find
it a necessary addition to your professional toolkit.
—Marshall T. Rose, Principal, Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
