[DaGuy]

So I spotted a folder wich apparently contains Tcl (with no Tk). I guess this because the Tk part requires an X Windows installation.
My question is, what are the plus and minuses of using Tcl instead of say Perl or even a Unix shell language?

I would like to play with it further, does anyone know any cool things one can do with it? Also, how do you run a "Hello World" in Tcl?

Thanks,
-FB

[davechen]

Yeah, I think you're right about Tk. Without X windows it's be a major
pain to port Tk. I did get it running under Xfree.

I'm not much of a Tcl user, but the impression I got (from talking
to others) is that the Tk part is the cool part. I.e. being able
to build a GUI from scripts. In staring at some other people's Tcl,
I still haven't grokked the syntax.

Here is my hello world script:

#! /usr/bin/tcl

puts "Hello World"

[howardm4]

Good language. Yes, you need X for Tk but it works w/ XAqua.
For pure data munging, Perl is better (IMO).

Best book is "Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk by Brent Welch".