Progress Report tcl/tk

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:03:46 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > The main drawback of tcl/tk is that it may be going
> > obsolete. For example, I notice that my new moneydance
> > program has a python interface.
> 
> i think the most widespread usage of tcl/tk was in the make xconfig
> portion of kernel building.  Even that is no longer tcl/tk in 2.6.x.

The AOL httpd server is/was written in Tcl and C.  It is a content
management system. It has, as I understand it, been re-written in Java. But
I think the Tcl version has lots of continued use.

I think Tcl/Tk tends to be a GUI component more than anything else. It is
very good at holding things together, which was the very reason it was
originally written. And the Tk part, is, of course, a big part of both
Perl's and python's GUI toolkit. For the longest time, it WAS the GUI
toolkit for these languages.

Have you tried BWidget or BLT (Bell Labs Toolkit) yet?


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