'''Tcl and other languages''' links to pages that compare, connect, or sometimes partially reimplement other [programming language%|%programming languages] to/in [Tcl]. ** See Also ** [An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ress, and Tcl, by Lutz Prechelt, 2000-03-10]: [Tcl and other human languages]: Tcl as applications to "natural" human languages. [Tcl in comparison]: Code snippets and their counterparts in other programming languages. [Tcl implementations]: ** Languages ** [Ada]: [APL]: [Playing APL] - [An APL playstation] [Playing Assembler]: [Basic in Tcl]: [bf]: [Brainfuck]: Making the Tcl interpreter understand [Brainfuck] notation. http://www.fishpool.com/~setok/proj/tclbf/ [C]: [C Language] - [Playing C] - [C struct is Tcl!] - [C code generators] - [Building a custom tclsh] [C++]: [Cplusplus streams and Tcl channels] - [Invoking Tcl commands from Cplusplus], http://www.cv.nrao.edu/glish/, [Tclobj], [Swig], [TclCl] [C#]: Both Tcl and C# provide for [event-oriented programming]. Caml: http://pauillac.inria.fr/camltk/ [[surely someone here has played with the Caml/Tk interface?]] [CLIPS]: (logic programming, expert systems) [Playing CLIPS] [COBOL]: [[there are several Cobol connections]] http://isweb34.infoseek.co.jp/computer/bitwalk/cobol_en.html http://members.tripod.com/rpragana/cobol.html http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/ [Playing Cobol] ColdFusion: (a server side technology which compiles html enhanced code into Java) http://panoptic.com/cfx_tcl/ [D]: [Eiffel]: http://www.elj.com/epan/by_author/jb/tcl-eif/ [[I know that eiftcl was created at one point to interface Eiffel and Tcl; anything else done in this domain?]] [Erlang]: [FEMTOL]: [Forth]: [RPN in Tcl], [Trying FORTH in Tcl], TkFORTH, iFORTH [http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html], [HolonTForth] [FORTRAN]: [ftcl]; Embedding FORTRAN programs in Tcl/Tk: http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/Cookbook/f1.html, FORTRAN/TK - a Tk-implementation for Open Watcom FORTRAN 77: http://svn.netlabs.org/fortrantk, [Arjen Markus] has a prototype for embedding Fortran into Tcl and vice versa. (Just contact me - it is still prototypical.), NaGexTool is a guide and browser for the example programs of the NAG FORTRAN 77 library [G]: Gofer: http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/pm/projekte/TkGofer/ [Guile]: [Haskell]: [Playing Haskell] [Interfacing Tcl with Haskell] [hecl]: [heretcl]: Hydra: http://www.tortoise74.me.uk/cybernetics/hydra_overview.html [Icon Programming Language%|%Icon]: [ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html%|%InterLanguage Unification (ILU)]: [Java]: [Java and Tcl], [tclBlend], [Jacl], http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/java/feather/ [Javascript]: [Tcl in Javascript] [Jim]: Joy: [Playing Joy]: [Ksh]: [L]: [http://www.vorlesungen.uni-osnabrueck.de/informatik/inferno/man/html/md_tk.htm%|%Limbo/Tk]: Linda: [Building a Notification Infrastructure using Tcl, Zephyr and Linda%|%Building a Notification Infrastructure using Tcl, Zephyr and Linda], W. Scott Meeks, Fifth Annual tcl/Tk Workshop, 1997: [Lisp]: [Tcl and LISP] - [Playing LISP], [newLISP] [Logo]: [Turtle graphics the LOGO way] - [Turtleshell] [Lua]: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/%7Eroberto/lua.html has a Tk binding. There is also Lux [http://www.equi4.com/lux/README], which makes Tcl callable from Lua. This [http://lua-users.org/wiki/UsingLuaWithOtherLanguages] is the Lua equivalent of this page on the Lua Wiki [http://lua-users.org/wiki/]. [ML]: [http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/%7Ecxl/sml_tk/%|%sml_tk] is a Standard ML package providing an abstract interface to Tcl/Tk Modula-3: http://m3.polymtl.ca/m3/pkgf/contrib/m3tcl/.ghindex.html. See also [Preprocessing and Radical Language Modification]. [Mozart]: [parenthetcl]: [parrot]: [Perl]: There are many points where Perl and Tcl touch, including [tclperl], [Tcl::Tk], [Perl/Tk], Inline::Tcl [http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Inline%3A%3ATcl]. [Picol]: A 500 line implementation of a Tcl like language [Prolog]: [Playing Prolog], http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software/Ciao/ [Python]: [Playing Python], [tclpython], [Tkinter], and [Elmer] - What about http://www.veritas.com/%7Ebrianw/rivet/ - is there continuing support for this Tk without Tcl project? Also ITCLPYTHON [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13244&release_id=39973]. The Typcl extension lets you use Tcl from Python [http://www.equi4.com/critlib/typcl.README], it is part of CritLib [http://www.equi4.com/critlib/]. This [http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLanguages] and this [http://web.archive.org/web/20071108024137/www.thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/UsingPythonWithOtherLanguages] are the Python equivalents of this page. Q: Equational Programming Language, which has a Tk interface [http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/] [R]: tk interface in the tcltk package. http://www.r-project.org [Rexx]: http://rexxtk.sourceforge.net/ (fixed link 12/11/02) [Ruby]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/lang/ruby-tcltklib/pkg-descr This [http://web.archive.org/web/20061011122348/wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/UsingRubyWithOtherLanguages] is Ruby equivalent of this page. [Rust]: https://github.com/AngryLawyer/rust-tcl%|%rust-tcl%|%, https://peterlane.netlify.app/rstk/%|%rstk%|% [Sather]: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/sather-browser.html [[comes with a Tk browser]] [Scheme]: [Scheme Tk%|%STk] is a Tk binding for Scheme. [Smalltalk]: [Playing Smalltalk] [small tcl]: [Snobol]: Swift/T: A parallel programming language based on Tcl: http://swift-lang.org/Swift-T/gallery.html#swift_tcl%|%Example%|% [tiny tcl]: [TKS], or '''Toolkit Script Language''': TOS: http://www.lifl.fr/~pawlak/tos/ ---- [LV]: Hey, if you know of other computer programming languages which have some Tcl/Tk relationship, add them above. Also, if you know of people who have written other languages, based on Tcl, add them as well. ---- [CL] also occasionally comments on this topic in [http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.misc/polyglot.html]. ---- http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_timeline is an interesting [Wiki] page, a part of an internet encyclopedia. The page provides a time line of applications and programming languages created from 1840 through 2001. Then there is the Computer Programming Language Dictionary [http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep.pl?_alpha=t] - check out what it says about Tcl. http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/lang.html is a discussion of programming languages, and mentions Tcl as ''the grand daddy of scripting languages''. <> Language | Programming Language