This is a page for me to outline a 45 minute talk I am giving this summer on Tcl/Tk

** Talk Overview **

   * 45 minutes total

   * Sophisticated audience

   * Unix users

   * Skeptical about Tcl/Tk

** Things does great **

   * GUI

   * Event loop (file + GUI)

   * Deferred evaluation

   * Template with subst

** Complaints ** 

   * Syntax is weird: non-Algol

   * Slow

   * Syntax is weird: names/ values versus variables

** Demos ** 

   * Hello World button, counting buttons

   * fifo/ barcode event scanner thing

   * tksed

   * postgresql over ssh

** Possible new niches **

   * Now everyone has X Windows

   * Makers should be driving their things with Tcl/Tk

   * Cheap and Cheerful interface programming, now that there are so many Unix boxes around (original niche)

** Challenges **

   * Deployment perceptions 
   ** ''how is deployment a challenge? Of all the languages on the planet, Tcl is about the only one that has this one nailed because of tclkits, starkits and starpacks.''
   *** Recently it is not shipping on standard installations, like Free Geek's Ubuntu.  I also added the "perceptions" thing

   * Libraries (need a Tcl/Tk library project)

** Funny Slides and Images **

   * Not funny

** Notes for using this later **

   * All user groups need speakers -- hint, hint

   * Feel free to update, use, comment on successes and failures, etc

** Links **

http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2009/proposals/24 

http://tcl.projectforum.com/roadmap/Home 

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d6f... 

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