Joy Online Manual

About Tcl 8.0 commands

Joy supports the complete set of Tcl 8.0 commands.  Future versions of Tcl will be incorporated into new revisions of Joy regularly.  This section contains the original Tcl 8.0 man pages converted into html and enhanced with cross-references.

If you are new to Tcl you might want to read one of the following books:

Ousterhout: Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (Addison-Wesley)
Welch: Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk (Prentice Hall)
Webster/Francis: Tcl/Tk for Dummies (IDG Books)

Note that Joy does not include Tk, since we recommend doing graphical user interface programming using the Application Kit.

If you want to use Joy as a prototyping tools and convert your code to Objective-C or Java later you should try to minimize the use of Tcl commands and use the Foundation Framework for tasks like string manipulation and file handling.

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