TCL as a Server Side Programming Language [closed]

Question

I am getting ready to build a web application (app) and was interested in using DHTML and TCL. I have been building apps in TCL for awhile and feel pretty comfortable with using this language. I have experience using Visual Studio (VS) to write web apps where the server-side code is in C#. VS makes this incredibly simple and pretty straight forward.

Does anyone have any suggestions on an IDE that will enable me to write HTML/Javascript client-side code and TCL server-side code, similar to VS? I picked up the book, "Web Tcl Complete", but it doesn't seem to provide information on combining Tcl with DHTML.

Thank you,

Damion

Answer 1

I work for a company that does its web applications in tcl exclusivley. It won't earn you any awards, but it is a very viable platform for that. DHTML is handled the same way as other server side languages, it is serverd just like any other html cause it is client side. We use AOLserver. Despite the terrible name (aol!!??) it is a nice platform and does everything one can do in php/jsp/asp and more. Threading is very easy :). AOLserver was the fastest web server around for years.

You just upload tcl scripts (.tcl files contain your buisness logic) and .adp files (your view code and dhtml) to the server and run them. All the aolserver code is written in either c or tcl.

A very nice IDE for tcl is Komodo.

Be prepared to be flamed for using tcl, but it is a very mature language with libraries to do just about anything. :D Most people just don't like the syntax, but as you know it is very simple.

Oh yeah if you are in the bay area, I might be able to get you an interview ;) Tcl programmers are pretty scarce around here.