I'm no expert and would suggest you look into the resources at
scriptics.com. I believe there are some articles there one I read sometime
back when SUN was developing tcl/tk that addressed the very question you
posted.
I've done almost no programming in JAVA, but have gone through some
self-taught courses. On the other hand I have developed a number of
applications in tcl/tk that are currently being used by a large number of
people with-in my company. I have also done years of C development and
worked with kSH for sometime now.
Given that background the analogy of tcl/tk is like to kSH as C is to JAVA.
JAVA is a very powerful lang. that frees the users from some of the nagging
problem one faces while using C. The hiding of pointers, memory management,
true arrays, etc. tcl/tk, although significantly more powerful than kSH
enjoys mush of its benefits. The lang. is very intuitive and easy to learn.
A single -day course and your at or about the same level of someone whose
taken a 3-month course in C or JAVA. Its also a scripting lang. so
development isn't side tracked by compilation steps.
The support organization for tcl/tk is also reasonable good. In some
respects better than "commercial" languages. The development tools such as
vtcl and gypsy and good with vtcl being the easiest and gypsy being the most
powerful, albeit a pain to use.
Robert M. Bartis
Lucent Technologies *
PVG Integration Testing
Room HO 2B-337
* 732.949.4565
* 732.616.1411
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> From: KaTe Hsieh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: [vtcl]why TCL/TK not Java?
>
> Can any friend tell me
> why do you choose TCL/TK to build GUI not JAVA??
> What is the advantge of using TCL/TK~~!! @_@
> Because, I have been asked (BY my tutor) to build a small GUI in my final
> year project, however, I have no idea to explain the reason why am I
> using
> it not JAVA in the report~~!!
>
> Please~~~~~~!! Give me some hint~~!!
>
>
> Thank you..
>
> KATE
>
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