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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: dcr8520 on March 08, 2003, 08:24:45 AM

Title: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for Amiga.
Post by: dcr8520 on March 08, 2003, 08:24:45 AM

Tcl  (Tool  Command  Language) is easy to learn and you can create a useful program  in  minutes!.   Tcl is a very simple programming language.  If you have  programmed  before,  you  can  learn  enough to write interesting Tcl programs      within      a      few      hours.       You      are      free  to  use  it however  you  wish (http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license_terms.txt),  even in commercial applications.
If you need more information      about      Tcl,      check     out     the     main     Tcl/Tk (http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/) page.

 Download (http://amiga.sourceforge.net/)

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: MarkTime on March 08, 2003, 06:49:48 PM

This rocks!

I love TCL/TK, it was main programming language for years.....

wooo, I don't even own an amiga anymore, but if I did...wow....sorry Rebol is cool, but nothing like a favorite language being ported....

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: LaBodilsen on March 08, 2003, 06:57:49 PM

Is it as easy as they make it out to be?

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: MarkTime on March 09, 2003, 12:02:45 AM

It's an easy to use scripting language.

I don't want to oversell it, its not the end all and be all of computer langauges.  It can be used for quite complex projects, but then, the code on those projects looks quite complex....

for knocking out a quick script to automate this task or that, I think its good.

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: Nick on March 09, 2003, 12:39:16 PM

Hmmm its  scripting language. I`m guessing it has a full compiler etc. I`m going to give this a try.

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: MarkTime on March 10, 2003, 03:53:35 AM

Hey on windows it did have a full compiler...not the standard version but you could get it, eventually even for free...and another thing, you can use the source code to put the tcl/tk engine in your own product...again compiling it.

But the easiest thing was to use a wrapper...I did this many times, basically I just included the whole tcl/tk engine with my program, and wrapped it all up in one package, and the user ran it like any other executable...but truly I did not recompile anything...

Title: Re: Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for
Post by: zudobug on March 10, 2003, 12:57:04 PM

I am currently learning tcl.  It's a very easy language to pick up if you already know some c or javascript.

My irc client (xchat) now supports tcl so I am scripting various things for that.  If anyone wants any help or to chat about it then come see me in #amiga.org

Here is a useful tcl link:

Tcl Developer Xchange (http://www.tcl.tk/)
(reference manual in documentation section)