tcl/tk aka wish

[EscapeCharacter]

could someone point me towards a *really* good tutorial, a book even, that goes into deep explaination of tcl/tk and explains ever little detail you never wanted to know?

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I like source it never *****es about dependencies
--Escchr 2000

[jemfinch]

Why? Tcl is one of the most horid languages ever devised. It's almost as bad as Intercal. If you can at all avoid it, use something else. Even perl is more readable than tcl.

If you're just learning a language on your own volition, then by all means, learn python instead. It's a far cleaner design, you can still design gui apps with Tkinter, it's very portable (gui apps designed on unix run the same on windows, and vice versa) and it'll teach you better programming habits.

Jeremy

[IdunnoNL]

That's not true.
Some nice programs have been written using Tcl/Tk


There's something like the a pdf-file, but I don't remember where I downloaded it.

[klamath]

Not to be negative, but I'd tend to agree with jemfinch. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single reason to learn Tcl. Yuck!

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[jemfinch]

Originally posted by IdunnoNL:
That's not true.
Some nice programs have been written using Tcl/Tk


There's something like the a pdf-file, but I don't remember where I downloaded it.[/B]

I'm sure nice programs have been written in just about any language. That doesn't mean the language is a good language as a result.

Jeremy

[IdunnoNL]

Of course, everyone has the right to dislike a language.
And I certainly not have enough programming experience to say something really smart about this, but I found Tcl easy and quick to learn. Tcl/Tk gives a quick opportunity to use a GUI simultaniously. I think this combination is very well suited for a beginning programmer. It's portable with some extremely small changes.
Lately, I'm learning C more extensively, but I think learning C would have been more difficult without having learned Tcl in the first place.
Especially the procedures do have roughly something in common.
But then again, I haven't got any experience with Python or others

[IdunnoNL]

By the way:

The pdf-file is called Tcl/Tk Electronic Reference by Charles Todd.

[pointreyes]

You did check http://dev.scriptics.com/ for additional tutorial links - didn't you?

Plus there is (you're going to love this URL: http://www.programmingtutorials.com/main.asp pretty good URL, isn't it? This site even has a tcl/tk forum.

[This message has been edited by pointreyes (edited 18 December 2000).]

[EscapeCharacter]

yeah the language is kinda nasty but i thought i might learn it anyway, i just finished learning bash(very easy) and a little bit of dialog, csh and zsh programming and thought id move on to something in the gui department until i get enough time to go head first into qt and gtk again. i have been looking at python and i think ill give that a try next.

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I like source it never *****es about dependencies
--Escchr 2000