

The former is no longer true, but from what I can see, there are still many platform-dependency issues Java. At the time when I was looking, platform-independent GUI tools for Java were not available and Sun and Microsoft were fighting for control of the turf. Java gets lots of press, too, and can do many of the same things. For my purposes, I'll consider them a single language, Tcl/Tk. Also, while Tk is available for Perl and Python, it was originally created by the author of Tcl, John Ousterhout, so it comes as no surprise that Tk works best with Tcl. What I can say is that Tcl was very easy for me to learn and it turns out to be very powerful, so I have never needed anything else.

Some people feel that other scripting languages, notably Perl and Python might be better choices than Tcl. The solution that eventually adopted is a scripting language, called Tcl, and a GUI tool, called Tk.
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I want to encourage other people to collaborate on software - if they must purchase something to do this, they probably won't. I want the same software to work on my desktop SGI, my Linux home computer and my coworker's Windows box (3) cheap. Learning new skills is important, but time is always scarce (2) cross platform. Tel: 30 Fax: 30 Ībout a decade ago, I started looking for a good way to create graphical user interfaces (GUI) for the FORTRAN programs that I was using on a regular basis and for those I was writing. Old wine in new bottles: creating graphical user interfaces for FORTRAN programs via Tcl/TkĬrystallography Team, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Stop 8562, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA.
