Tcl/Tk

Tcl and Tk were developed by John Ousterhout, UCB/Sun/Scriptics/Ajuba/etc. Tcl stands for "tool command language" and is pronounced "tickle". Tcl is actually two things: a language and a library. Tcl is a simple textual language, intended primarily for issuing commands to interactive programs such as text editors, debuggers, illustrators, and shells; it can also be used as a library package embedded in application programs.

Tk is an extension to Tcl which provides an interface to the X. Note that many users will encounter Tk via "wish", a simple windowing shell which permits the user to write Tcl applications interactively.

The latest versions of Tcl/Tk can be obtained via ftp from:

Additional Resources

Tcl/Tk related announcements may be mailed to to the moderator of comp.lang.tcl.announce at <tcl-announce@mitchell.org>.

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Last modified: Mon Sep 17 20:36:05 2001