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| Apache Software Foundation |
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| APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LAUNCHES APACHE TCL PROJECT |
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| February 12, 2001 |
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| The Apache Software Foundation today announced the launch of the |
| Apache Tcl project, with the goal of promoting the integration of the |
| Apache web server with the Tcl scripting language. |
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| Tcl (tool command language, pronounced "tickle") is an open-source, |
| cross-platform scripting language Tcl has a strong history of use for |
| the web, with products such as AOLserver, and the widely used |
| StoryServer. Combined with Apache, the world's most popular web |
| server, Tcl will make an excellent companion for back-end scripting |
| tasks. |
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| "Tcl is a great language for the web - it's small, light, easy to |
| learn, and has been used, developed and tested for a number of years" |
| said David Welton, vice president of Apache Tcl and author of |
| mod_dtcl. "It also has a large user base, and is a very active open |
| source project in its own right." |
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| tcl.apache.org will serve as a point of reference for Apache-Tcl |
| efforts, initially hosting the mod_dtcl project, a fast and light |
| implementation of Tcl for Apache. The project was initially modeled |
| after PHP, a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting |
| language. |
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| About Tcl |
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| Tcl, was created by John K. Ousterhout at the University of California |
| at Berkeley in 1988. Originally conceived as a reusable, embeddable |
| language core for tools being developed by Dr. Ousterhout and his |
| colleagues, it has come to be much more. Tcl is used today in a wide |
| variety of applications including web scripting, test automation, |
| network/system management, EDA and CAD, and in many other fields. |
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| For more information about Tcl, see http://tcl.activestate.com. |
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| About the Apache Software Foundation |
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| Founded in June 1999, the Apache Software Foundation provides |
| organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache |
| open-source software projects. Formerly known as the Apache Group, |
| the Foundation incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit |
| corporation to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist |
| beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable |
| contributions of intellectual property and financial support, and to |
| provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in |
| open-source projects. |
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| For more information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see |
| http://www.apache.org/. |
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