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INDEX ENTRY FOR TCL/TK:
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Name: Tcl/Tk - Tool Command Language
Version: 8.0
Author(s): John Ousterhout <john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com>
John Ousterhout
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/tcl.tar
Ftp source: ftp.sunlabs.com:/pub/tcl
ftp.neosoft.com:/pub/tcl (contributed code and docs)
Size on the CD: 3.6 MB (compressed)
Description:
Tcl (Tool Command Language) is an interpreted scripting language.
It has the power of being "embeddable" in other C through calls to
its interpreter library. This makes it extendible to other
applications, the most noteworthy of which is "tk" (included in
the CD). tk is a general-purpose GUI toolkit making it much easier
to implement Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). tk was originally
developed for an X environment, but both tcl and tk have been
ported to PCs and Macs.
On Tcl 8.0:
Tcl 8.0 is a major new release that replaces the core of the
interpreter with an on-the-fly bytecode compiler to improve
execution speed. It also includes several other new features such
as namespaces and binary I/O, plus many bug fixes. The compiler
introduces a few incompatibilities that may affect existing Tcl
scripts; the incompatibilities are relatively obscure but may
require modifications to some old scripts before they can run
with this version. The compiler introduces many new C-level APIs,
but the old APIs are still supported.
-- Quoted from the 8.0 README file
On Tk 8.0:
Tk 8.0 is a major release with significant new features such as
native look and feel on Macintoshes and PCs, a new font
mechanism, application embedding, and proper support for
Safe-Tcl. There should be no backward incompatibilities in Tk 8.0
that affect scripts.
Note: with this release the Tk version number skips from 4.2 to
8.0. The jump was made in order to synchronize the Tcl and Tk
version numbers.
-- Quoted from the 8.0 README file
Advertised architectures: Not listed.
Prerequisites: C compiler