This index points to just some of the online articles about Tcl, Tk, and various extensions. Most of these articles really talk about Tcl, instead of just mentioning it along with other scripting languages.
LV I've taken a first whack at organizing this page by article year where possible. If you would like to move some items from the unorganized section to the appropriate year, please feel free to do so. Also feel free to add new articles...
Using Tcl to create a virtual component in Verilog ,embedded.com ,2009-10-02
A brief introduction to the TCL Scripting Language , embedded.com ,2009-10-02
Hv3 and the art of minimalist web-browsing ,LWN.net ,2008-12-17
Tcl Turns 20 ,SD Times ,2008-20-04
"Hot skills: become a speedy software developer with Tcl" ,Computerweekly.com ,2007-11-02
a new text file browser to replace less. (about trowser) ,Linux.com ,2007-10-15
Microsoft makes AJAX technology available (includes a references to Æjaks) ,Infoworld ,2007-01-23
Tcl your desktop ,how to enhance one's desktop with tiny yet surprisingly useful applets ,Bill Zimmerly ,IBM developerWorks ,2006-06-10
OSnews discussion thread about Bill Zimmerly's article
Make it right using Tcl Software testing with Tcl for Apache Rivet David Welton, Free Software Magazine ,2005-05
Build a Simple 3D Pipeline in Tcl, Michael Norton, 2005-08-12
Scripting a Binary Tree Using Tcl ,Michael J. Norton ,2005-01-28 (also at rootprompt.org and [L1 ])
Network Tool Development with hping3 ,Frederico Biancuzzi ,2004-10-07
Asterisk Open-Source PBX System ,Brett Schwarz ,Linux Hournal ,2004-02-01
XP Testing Without XP: Taking Advantage of Agile Testing Practices ,Lisa Crispin ,Methods & Tools ,Summer 2003
Tcl Core Team Interview ,David Welton ,OSnews ,2003-03-10
comments and observations regarding Tcl.
Deploying Modules ,Dale Southard ,SysAdmin Magazine, p. 13-16 ,2003-12
environment.
Visual Cron 2.1 , Chip Castle ,SysAdmin Magazine ,p.55-56 ,2003-01
Feb. 2003 article on the suitability of Tcl/Tk for a CMU project -
On the Suitability of Tcl/Tk for SYS ,Fred Hansen ,Software Engineering Institute ,2003-02
Playing with Keyed Lists on Mac OS X Tcl/Tk Aqua 8.4.2 ,Michael J. Norton ,O'Reilly macdevcenter ,2003-06-27
Elementary Computer Graphics: Drawing with Pixels ,Michael J. Norton ,Oreilly macdevcenter ,2003-12-16
Network Diagramming and Monitoring with Scotty ,Brent Bice ,SysAdmin Magaine, p.29-32 ,2002-01
Michael Schlenker writes: "There is a 5-page article about tclhttpd in the august issue of the german Linuxmagazin (08/2002), written by Carsten Zerbst.
The full text seems unavailable online.
Some (very simple) example listings from the articel can be found at ftp://ftp.linux-magazin.de/pub/magazin/2002/08/Feder-Lesen ".
3-D Data Visualization on Mac OS X ,Michael J. Norton ,O'Reilly macdevcenter.com ,2002-06-28
Tcl/Tk now available for Aqua/Mac OS X ,Ernest Prabhakar ,Open Source Product Manager , apple.com ,2001-10-16
Tcl your Java apps ,Benedict Chng ,JavaWorld ,2001-03-23
An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl ,Lutz Prechelt ,2000-03-14
An introduction to Tk ,Charles Vidal ,2000-11
Automating Your Site with Expect ,Mike Schwager ,SysAdmin Magazine ,Volume 8,p.49-54 ,1999-11
Computerworld featured the NBC control room in January, 1999:
Sun releases scripting technology for Java ,Jacl promises more power for Java ,Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz 1997-12-01
Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system ,a thesis ,Dartmouth College ,Robert S. Gray ,1997-06-30
There is a PDF article from July/August 1997 at http://computer.org/internet/ on Agent Tcl Robert Gray also published an article in Dr. Dobbs Journal, March 1997, discussing Agnt Tcl.
Tcl/Tk-based Agents for Mail and News Notification ,Don Libes ,1997
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/ADASS/adass_proc/adass_95/assond/assond.html A Tcl/Tk-Based, Intelligent Graphical Editor for Preparing HST Programs from Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V ASP Conference Series, Vol. 101, 1996 George H. Jacoby and Jeannette Barnes, eds.
1993
There's also http://www.computer.org/dt/dt1993/d2046abs.htm , an article about an early 80s effort to create a C++ binding for Tcl and a debugger.
Unorganized
The Tcl/Tk Journal never got past the first issue, but had a couple of good articles on CGI and architecture.
The "Way Back Machine" has the one and only issue at [L4 ].
Cameron Laird is writing a new column called Tcl Counselor, which can be found at http://www.zdnet.com/developer/ (See index [L5 ]) Cameron also keeps his own index [L6 ]
Larry Virden: Be aware that some browsers (at least SPARC Solaris Netscape Communicator 4.76!) has 'indigestion' with the zdnet.com site. That is to say, when I try the above pages, some render, some don't, some take a very long time to render, etc. Don't blame the author for the sins of the webmasters...
You can see articles at http://www.sunworld.com/ , including quite a number of references in the Regular Expressions column [L7 ], also written by Cameron Laird.
I don't know what definition of article was intended by the creator of this page, but http://www.usenix.org/ has quite a number of articles and papers that have been presented at conferences or published in their monthly journal which relate to Tcl and Tk, including a semi-regular column by Clif Flynt.
The X Resource, a publication by O'Reilly's, has published a few articles on Tcl and Tk. Unfortunately, I don't think the articles themselves are available only - the source from the articles is available on ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/issue11/ though.
WebReview did an article on Tcl which is available at http://webreview.com/wr/pub/freeware/tcl.html .
Text versions of articles from ;Login: regarding Tcl can be found at http://reality.sgi.com/employees/jes/home.html .
At http://www.w3j.com/ you find the archives of the WWW Journal, a publication by O'Reilly's which covers the world of the Web. A number of articles have been published relating to Tcl ; use their search engine to find the currently available ones.
Byte Magazine had a few articles specifically about Tcl over the years, as well as references in a number of others. See for instance http://www.byte.com/art/9602/sec11/art1.htm
http://www.byte.com/art/9704/sec5/art5.htm
and if you search their site, you will also find references relating to products reviewed which use Tcl.
The Developer.com site did a profile on John Ousterhout at http://www.developer.com/journal/profiles/060398_ouster.html . There are a couple of articles on Jacl, as well as a few other Tcl references at this web site. They have created a Tcl directory at
http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.tcl.html in yet another
attempt to categorize Tcl offerings. See http://www.developer.com/reference/library/1575211025/ch29.htm for a longer article on using Tcl with Java.
The bioinformatic part of GNOMICS - the small genome sequencing group - was written 99% in Tcl/Tk. See the article on http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/wbsp-article.cgi?art=396133A0&artlist=36482723.art:396133AO:392015AO:396109A0:396133A0:392015A0:392037A0:390364A0&def=36476ab2.def&deflist=36352b7b.def:3632fd17.def:362b44dd.def:362171c2.def:36216c9c.def:361a3df1.def:360fca6d.def : and notice figures 1 and 2 - which are Tk canvas dumps.
http://www.multimania.com/droche/article_tcl/article.html is an article in French, written for the French Linux magazine http://www.wsf.fr/pearl/linux/linuxmag.htm .
The WebTechniques http://www.webtechniques.com/ magazine continues to publish articles on Tcl and Tk on occasion. See the 1997 article on the Tcl Plugin http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1997/12/junk/ , the 1999 issue for Steve Ball's article on Scripting XML with Tcl, http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/10/junk/ the 2000 article on Web agents written in Tcl/Tk http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/03/schrenk/ , and many more - more than 45 hits on Tcl are found.
The Linux Gazette occasionally covers Tcl related topics, such as the article http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue49/pramode.html "Using SWIG to interface scripting languages with C/C++".
Frank Pilhofer [L8 ] has written an article on getting dynamic extensions written in C++ to work. It can be found at http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Efp/Tcl/tcl-c++/ in various formats. The text only covers Unix issues.
There is a brief introduction to Tcl and Tk by the developer .com site at http://www.developer.com/reference/library/0672310120/html/ch30.htm . This article appears to be related to Red Hat Linux Unleashed. and appears to have been written by Rick McMullin.
See http://cscene.oftheinter.net/CS2/CS2-08.html for an article on using Tcl as a scripting language for a C application.
Here's an introductory paper about object-orientation in Tcl [L9 ]
And a paper that describes how you can easily parse textual data files [L10 ]. The idea is that you change the TCL syntax so that it fits your data file format, then let the TCL interpreter take care of parsing.
Linux Journal [L11 ] has several articles on Tcl, Expect, etc., as well as software reviews, etc.
Linux Today [L12 ] runs articles on Tcl.
Linux Gazette occasional covers Tcl related articles, such as http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue49/pramode.html , which is an article on SWIG.
At Linux Month, there are [L13 ] there is Tcl coverage in various articles.
Search http://www.ieee.org/ for a variety of articles on use of Tcl.
Dr. Dobbs Journal http://www.ddj.com/ sponsers the Tcl-URL! regular articles, as well as publishes the occasional article on Tcl. For instance,
and many more. Last time I checked, this url [L15 ] returned 90 or more hits on Tcl at the DDJ site.
element k publishes a journal on DBM. They have published articles on OraTcl such as http://www.elementkjournals.com/dbm/0007/dbm0071.htm
O'Reilly's publishes all sorts of articles - here are a few articles relating to Tcl
Feel free to add links to others as you find them.
Carsten Zerbst has a column on Tcl/Tk for LinuxMagazin [L21 ].
Tom Wilkason writes in comp.lang.tcl:
There was a recent article on Tcl for EDA in EETimes
http://www.eetimes.com/story/design/OEG20020103S0067
To kick off an open source effort for EDA Tools in Tcl, see http://www.tclforeda.net
If you are interested
[It appears this page was truncated at some point :-( ]
Expect Exceeds Expectations ,Cameron Laird ,2002
Also, an article on XML tools and Jacl can be found at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xjacl?open&l=443,t=gr
"Perl guru Charlie Stross" nicely introduces Tcl to the Linux Format [L22 ] audience in his "What on Earth is Tcl?" [L23 ]. Quibbles are minor, and most exacerbated by publishing delays: URLs are given for scriptics.com and neosoft.com rather than tcl.tk. He fails to credit the Expect book properly for its coverage of Tk. Overall, it's plenty readable and useful. Patrick Finnegan summarizes: "it's ideal for proselytising managers and potential Tcl programmers."
There are various Tcl related articles at http://www.macdevcenter.com/ .
"Using Tcl as Application Glue for the Enterprise" [L24 ]
"OI to Tcl/Tk Migration for WFO-Advanced" [L25 ] Big! (3MB)
The Great Computer Language Shootout: http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
A comparison of the performance of 30 languages spread over 25 benchmark tests. The performance alone is interesting, but not the most valuable aspect of this site. Being able to see the same piece of code implemented in different languages is a great way to get an idea for the syntax and style of a language. No matter how fast or expressive it is, you have to like programming in it for it to be a worthwhile choice.
I'm uncertain whether this really falls into this category or not: Embeddable Fuzzy-Logic-Toolkit Software for Tcl/Tk [L26 ]
See http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/03.reports/03tn002.html and thread [[email protected]]
escargo Both of these articles refer to tcl as "Terminal Control Language." I thought it was the "Tool Control Language." That's what it is according to the Acronym collection. If the writers of these articles can't even get the name of the language right, what else might they be wrong about?
MDD: Actually, it stands for "Tool Command Language"
http://www.linux-magazine.com/ appears to have published over 30 articles related to Tcl - the most recent being in August, 2003. These articles are available in PDF format. See, for instance,
David Zolli has an article published in the French edition of Linux Magazine at http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=160 .
CL mentions http://www.amag.com/documents/s=8955/sam0310web1/ in connection to information about Expect.
Since 2002, Michael J. Norton has been publishing pieces [L27 ] nominally about Mac OS X, but which generally can be interpreted in terms of Tcl scripting for all the usual platforms.
In Jan 2005, Michael Norton wrote an article concerning the use of Tcl to manage binary trees. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/01/28/tcl.html?CMP=ILC-macrss&ATT=Scripting+a+Binary+Tree+Using+Tcl
RLH - Now doing an article would be a good way to show that Tcl is alive and well (marketing). If Tcl articles started showing up in Linux Mag and the like it might get people to at least look at what Tcl has to offer.
LV Perhaps. Someone should try to write something up, see if any of the Linux or Unix magazines will publish it, then let other authors know where tcl is not on the banned list.
LV Dec 15, 2005, Over in comp.lang.tcl, there has been discussion about starting an online magazine for Tcl at http://www.tcltalk.com/ . If you would like to contribute material for the magazine, contact the editor as listed on that page.
[L28 ] is a page on Tcl articles. Though the web site is French, the articles appear to be a variety of languages.
AM Here is a list of scientific papers mentioning Tcl
See also Tcl Bibliography for very old references.