Complete precompiled Tcl/Tk v8.4.2 package released for Amiga.

[dcr8520]

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,  even in commercial applications.
If you need more information      about      Tcl,      check     out     the     main     Tcl/Tk page.

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[MarkTime]

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....

[LaBodilsen]

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

[MarkTime]

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.

[Nick]

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

[MarkTime]

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...

[zudobug]

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
(reference manual in documentation section)