Enough praise hasn't been given to
Tcl regarding its
TCP networking capabilities. While
UDP support is lacking in the core, you are given access to a powerful, event driven I/O facility by means of
socket,
fileevent,
fconfigure,
gets,
read et al. The capabilities assumed by
Network server application template (and other, better templates) are unmatched by other scripting languages.
Ah, the wonderful compression of: fconfigure $chan -blocking 0 -buffering line; fileevent $chan readable [list handle_input $chan]
Heck, Tcl's whole I/O subsystem (realized through
channels and
events) is light years beyond the competition.
--
Todd Coram heaping praise where praise is due
Other astonishingly useful Tcl-based tools include
BEEP,
GASP,
sockspy,
TclRFB and
TkVNC, ...
Category Networking -
Category Internet
