>> I had a feeling you'd say that.
> 
> Hey, Tcl does just about everything. That's why I like it.

Well, it does a few things that are useful. (E.g., it's one of the few 
portable languages that lets you access Windoze-specific file attributes.)

>> It looks like I can use this to put an icon with a tooltip in the 
>> taskbar. I was kind of hoping to be able to pop up small messages as 
>> well, but I guess that isn't critical.
> 
> You can do that. You don't need this extension for it. Use "wm 
> OVERRIDE_REDIRECT" or some such on your window, and you won't get a 
> border or close buttons, so you just position it in the corner and draw 
> into it.

And how the heck do I figure out *where* the corner of the screen is? 
(And, for that matter, avoid stealing the input focus when the window 
opens?)

> What's unreliable about it? I've very rarely had a problem with anything 
> not working as specified. Indeed, I've been using it for 13 years and 
> only found two rather obscure bugs.
> 
> If you mean "it doesn't work as I expect" (e.g., things complaining 
> about malformed lists), post your code and I'm happy to show you how to 
> do it reliably.

It's a scripting language. It doesn't really "do" error-handling. If 
something goes wrong, the script tends to just choke in an unpredictable 
way.

Many of the Tcl scripts I run seem to leak memory pretty badly. I did 
have a Tcl script that did something every 5 minutes - but I discovered 
that the longer it runs, the more RAM it eats. I now rerun the script 
every 5 minutes using an external tool.

There are many, *many* things that work unexpectedly in Tcl. But then, 
the language isn't really set up for making production-grade 
applications, it's designed for quickly throwing things together that 
work on the day you test them.

The list goes on...

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