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Tcl/Tk

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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.

See also: Tk

OS/2 Implementations

Foreign libraries with Tcl bindings
Tcl related programmer's utilities
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

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

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