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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:

>Some people plan to use Tcl because they want to use Tk.  Thankfully,
>it is possible to use Tk without Tcl.  A Scheme interpreter called STk
>is already available.  Please, if you want to use Tk, use it with STk,
>not with Tcl.  One place to get STk is from
>ftp.cs.indiana.edu:pub/scheme-repository/imp/STk-2.1.tar.Z

In a followup, Barry Merriman suggests to try Python.  I can't agree
more :-).  Moreover, Python also has a cool object-oriented interface
to Tk!  Python's home ftp site has this URL:
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python (read the INDEX file); the Tk interface is
called tkinter.tar.gz.  There's also considerable on-line info about
Python on WWW; the URL is http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/Python.html.
Finally, there's a newsgroup (comp.lang.python).

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <mailto:Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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