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* The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" bookMark Summerfield
`* Re: The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" bookAndreas Leitgeb
 `- Re: The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" bookMark Summerfield

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Subject: The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" book
From: Mark Summerfield
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:28 UTC
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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).

Subject: Re: The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" book
From: Andreas Leitgeb
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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 ;-)

Subject: Re: The "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" book
From: Mark Summerfield
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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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