# Tcl Programming/Appendix
## Appendix
### Resources

* The main page of Tcl developers is the Tcl Developer Xchange.
* Download a free binary ActiveTcl distribution at ActiveState.
* The main USENET forum dedicated to this language is news:comp.lang.tcl.
* In German, there's also http://www.self-tcl.de/forum for questions and answers
* The main user wiki is The Tclers Wiki.
* The Tclers' Chat can provide quick response to questions: Jabber all.tclers.tk:5222, IRC freenode #tcl, or Webchat http://mini.net/cgi-bin/chat.cgi (all of the three being relayed between each other)
* The Tcl man pages can be found here.
* The Tk man pages can be found here.
* Documentation on Tcllib, the Tcl standard library is here.
* There is a tutorial for Tcl here.
For Web development, there are:
* pure-Tcl Web servers like Tclhttpd, which can be embedded in your Tcl-enabled applications to provide Web-based interfaces,
* Tcl-based Web servers like AOLServer, which are much faster than their pure-Tcl cousins and able to support a heavy load, and
* Tcl Web server modules (see Apache Tcl for examples) that enable Tcl Web applications with bog-standard Web servers.

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