... components ¹

Indeed, thus spake John Ousterhout : "If you look at financial services, a lot of what they do is try and tie together all of the different systems that need to be coordinated with traders, not to mention the front and back office. It's a tremendous integration effort, and that's exactly what Tcl does wonderfully...".

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... issued ²

Synchronous delivery of messages is supported as an option but asynchronous delivery is expected to be the common case.

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... AGNI ³

"AGents at NIst" (also Sanskrit for fire)

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