Purpose: to document various historical events in the ''life'' of [Tcl]. [John Ousterhout]'s essay on the "History of Tcl" [http://www.tcl.tk/doc/tclHistory.html] is a natural starting point. Particular milestones of frequent interest include * spring 1988: [JO] first uses Tcl in one of his own graphical text editors * late 1988: [JO] begins [Tk] * 1989: [JO] gives away Tcl source to early adopters * 1990: [Don Libes] writes first version of [Expect] * 1990: [Tcl 2.1] - Tk usable * 1990: Tcl 3.1 * 1990: Tcl 3.2 * 1990: Tcl 3.3 * 1990: [JO] presents Tcl at [Usenix] Conference * 1990: [DL] presents [Expect] at Usenix Conference [http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ousterhout90tcl.html] (first non-JO Tcl publication) * 1991: Tcl 5.0 * 1991: Tcl 6.0 * 1991: Tcl 6.1 * 1991: [JO] presents Tk at X Technical Conference and at Winter USENIX conference. * 1991-1992: [JO]'s "epiphany" that the work of [Kevin Kenny] and others demonstrates Tcl's utility as an "application shell". * 1992: Tcl 6.2 * 1992: Tcl 6.3 * 1992: Tcl 6.4, with Tk 2.2 (release announcement [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/47439b77ce4e6be4] dated 1992-08-07); Tk 2.3 released with bugfixes the same month [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f11c8978393effa7/] [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a3d61a61b5b0a620/] * 1992: Tcl 6.5, with Tk 3.0 (release announcement [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/fe665818b488c806] dated 1992-12-18) * 1993: [Perspecta] Software formed. Perspecta Presents , a presentation software package using Tcl commands, was the company's first, and only, product. See [http://www.rpi.edu/dept/rcs/packages/ppres/1.10/] for some old info. * 1993: Tcl 6.6 * 1993: Tcl 6.7 * 1993: Tcl 7.0 * 1993: Tcl 7.1 * 1993: Tcl 7.3 * 1993: First Tcl workshop held at Berkeley, organized by [Larry Rowe], see [1993 Tcl/Tk Workshop]. * 1994: [JO] publishes first edition of [BOOK Tcl and the Tk Toolkit] [http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/john94tcl.html] * 1994: [JO] begins a Tcl research team ("[SunScript]") at Sun Microsystems Corp * 1994: Second Tcl workshop held in New Orleans, see [1994 Tcl/Tk Workshop]. * 1995-1997: Center of Tcl activity moves from embedding-and-extending to general-purpose Unix programming, then to portable general-purpose programming. * 1995: Tcl 7.4 * 1995: Tk 4.0 released; first version of Tk that's really as we know it today (bindings worked very differently before then.) * 1995: [Third Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop] held in Toronto * 1996: [Fourth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop] held in Monterey * 1996: Tcl 7.5 * 1996: Tcl 7.6 * 1997: [Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop] held in Boston * 1997: Tcl/Tk 8.0 released (1997/08/16) * 1997: Tcl 7.6p2 * 1997: Tcl 8.0 * 1998: [JO] leaves SMC to begin [Scriptics] * 1998: [Sixth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in San Diego * 1999: [jcw] makes [The Tcler's Wiki] available to the community (1999/02) * 1999: Tcl/Tk 8.1 released (1999/04/30) * 1999: Tcl/Tk 8.1.1 released (1999/05/27) * 1999: Tcl/Tk 8.2 released (1999/08/18) * 1999: Tcl/Tk 8.2.1 released (1999/10/04) * 1999: Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 released (1999/12/16) * 2000: [Scriptics] renamed [Ajuba Solutions] * 2000: [First European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Hamburg * 2000: [Seventh Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in Austin * 2000: [Ajuba Solutions] sold to [Interwoven] * 2000: Tcl/Tk 8.3.0 released (2000/02/10) * 2000: Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 released (2000/04/26) * 2000: Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 released (2000/08/11) * 2001: [Tcl chatroom] is on the air, a useful community medium up to now (2001/01/24 - now) * 2001: [Second European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Hamburg * 2001: [Eighth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in San Diego * 2001: [[center-of-gravity moves north to [ActiveState] ]] * 2001: Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 released (2001/04/10) * 2001: Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 released (2001/10/23) * 2002: [Third European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Munich * 2002: [Ninth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in Vancouver * 2002: Tcl/Tk 8.3.5 released (2002/10/18) * 2002: Tcl/Tk 8.4.0 released (2002/09/18) * 2002: Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 released (2002/10/23) * 2003: [Fourth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Nuremberg * 2003: [Tenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in Ann Arbor * 2002: Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 released (2003/03/04) * 2003: Tcl/Tk 8.4.5 released (2003/11/25) * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.4.6 released (2004/03/04) * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.5a1 released (2004/03/04) * 2004: [Fifth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Nuremberg * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 released (2004/07/25) * 2004: [Eleventh Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held in New Orleans * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.4.8 released (2004/11/22) * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.4.9 released (2004/12/07) * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.5a2 released (2004/12/07) * 2005: [Fifth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany * 2005: Tcl/Tk 8.4.10 released (2005/06/04) * 2004: Tcl/Tk 8.5a3 released (2005/06/04) * 2005: Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 released (2005/06/29) * 2005: [Twelfth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] is in Portland, OR. (2005/10/24-28) * 2005: Tcl/Tk 8.4.12 (2005/12/05) * 2006: Tcl/Tk 8.4.13 (2006/03/16) * 2006: Tcl/Tk 8.5a4 (2006/04/26) * 2006: [Sixth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] held in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany * 2006: Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 (2006/10/18) * 2006: Tcl/Tk 8.5a5 (2006/10/20) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.5a6 (2007/04/25) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.4.15 (2007/05/24) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 (2007/09/20) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 (2007/09/20) * 2007: [Thirteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] in New Orleans, LA (2007/09) * 2007: The Wiki received a substantial makeover, see also [Wiki with style] (2007/10 - 2007/11 - ...) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.5b2 (2007/10/26) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.5b3 (2007/11/19 ?) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 (2007/12/20) * 2007: Tcl/Tk 8.4.17 (2007/12/31) * 2008: Tcl/Tk turn 20 years old! [http://www2.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=31644] * 2008: Tcl/Tk 8.5.1 (2008/02/05) * 2008: Tcl/Tk 8.4.18 (2008/02/08) ---- '''Comments''' SourceForge has some very old source releases of Tcl at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 e.g. [Tcl 2.1] (March 1990)! ---- See also: * [Changes in Tcl/Tk] * [History of Tk] * [Tcl Chronology] * [Tcl Heritage] * [Brief Tcl Corporate History] * [Jeffrey Hobbs]' state-of-the-language presentation [ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/conference/os2001/Hobbs_J_1350/] at OSCON 2001. ---- !!!!!! %|[Category Community]|[Category Discussion]|[History of Tcl and Tk]|% !!!!!!