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The main advantage of the Tcl/Tk system on OS/2 has been the Tk widget toolkit and portability on systems where REXX is not common.

Tcl is the Tool Command Language and Tk is the windowing Toolkit for Tcl. Originally designed as a macro- and initialization-file language for people's applications, the example applications tclsh (Tcl Shell) and wish (Windowing Shell, Tk) are nowadays most often used to run complete, portable script-applications. Tcl/Tk is officially supported on Unix and the X Window System, Apple Macintosh and MS Windows; user-contributed ports exist for e.g. VMS and, of course, OS/2.

OS/2 Implementations

PM Tcl/Tk - Open source

Foreign libraries with Tcl bindings

LibcURL - Internet URL (WWW, FTP, etc) access - Open Source
Libxml2 - XML parser
Libxslt - XSLT parser

Tcl related programmer's utilities

Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of Tcl source files - Open source
Tcl Blend - Allows writing Tcl extensions in Java - Open source

Applications with a Tcl programming interface

PostgreSQL - SQL relational database system - Open source

Editor support

Boxer - Contributed, requires a separate download
Elvis - Tcl syntax support included by default - Open source
NEdit - XFree86 - Autoindent, autocomplete and syntax highlighting - Open source

DOS Implementations

MSTCL - port of Tcl 7.3, Tk 4.0
TinyTcl

Editor support

Boxer - Contributed, requires a separate download
Elvis - Tcl syntax support included by default - Open source

Win-OS/2

Last known version Tcl8.0.2 or 7.6.2

Requires Win32s

Java implementations

HECL - Not ment to be 100% compatible but close enough for porting - Open source
JACL aka Tcl/Java - Open source
jTcl - Open source

Editor support

jEdit - Java based editor - Tcl and TK syntax highlighting built in

Publications

Brent Welch: Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk - Prentice Hall 1995, ISBN 0-13-022028-0
Mark Harrison; Michael McLennan: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming - Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-63474-0
John K. Ousterhout: Tcl and the Tk Toolkit - Addison Wesley 2006, ISBN 978-0-321-33633-0

Links

Active State's Tcl page - Info from the company behind Tcl
http://www.tcl.tk
Tcl on Java Wiki

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 The main advantage of the Tcl/Tk system on OS/2 has been the Tk widget toolkit and portability on systems where REXX is not common.
+Tcl is the Tool Command Language and Tk is the windowing Toolkit for Tcl. Originally designed as a macro- and initialization-file language for people's applications, the example applications tclsh (Tcl Shell) and wish (Windowing Shell, Tk) are nowadays most often used to run complete, portable script-applications. Tcl/Tk is officially supported on Unix and the X Window System, Apple Macintosh and MS Windows; user-contributed ports exist for e.g. VMS and, of course, OS/2.
 See also: [[Tk]]