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  • The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" book

    From Mark Summerfield@mark@qtrac.eu to comp.lang.tcl on Wed Jul 10 07:28:25 2024
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    The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk 8.5.

    I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I
    wondered if someone else was?

    It would be great to have a new edition that covered all the new things
    added in 8.6 and 9.0 (esp. OO), and ideally also at least introduced
    Tcllib and Tklib (which I don't think the original book covers).
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  • From Andreas Leitgeb@avl@logic.at to comp.lang.tcl on Mon Jul 15 10:49:03 2024
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    Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
    The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk 8.5.
    I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I wondered if someone else was?

    Well, regarding "if someone else was", there is this book
    "The TCL Programming Language" by Ashok P. Nadkarni

    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BOOK+The+Tcl+Programming+Language

    Have a look if this satisfies your reading needs ;-)
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  • From Mark Summerfield@mark@qtrac.eu to comp.lang.tcl on Mon Jul 15 11:07:57 2024
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    On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:49:03 -0000 (UTC), Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

    Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
    The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk
    8.5.
    I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I
    wondered if someone else was?

    Well, regarding "if someone else was", there is this book
    "The TCL Programming Language" by Ashok P. Nadkarni

    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BOOK+The+Tcl+Programming+Language

    Have a look if this satisfies your reading needs ;-)

    I've got that book too and although it is comprehensive it is by no means
    a tutorial, so I still find "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" much easier to learn from. Of course, Ashok's book also covers OO and some of Tcllib which the older book doesn't.

    However, I still think an equivalent to a "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 3rd
    edition is needed to cover all the things that the 2nd edition doesn't
    (Tcl/Tk 8.6 and 9.0, TclOO), so I really hope someone writes it!
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