RE: [9fans] Start of Tcl Port to Plan 9

[nigel@9fs.org]

> It has Tk, but it also has the command wish(1), which is described as 'a Tcl command line interface to the Limbo/Tk graphics toolkit.'  The 'BUGS' section of the manpage states 'Arguably this has been superseded by sh-tk(1) ... and tkcmd(1) ...'
>

Well, ok. I guess we are both right in some ways. You can also read this in man 9 intro:

     function in that module. The Inferno Tk implementation is
     based on the Tk 4.0 documentation, but there are many
     differences, probably the greatest of which is that there is
     no associated Tcl implementation, so almost every Inferno

So, yes, there is some tcl'ness, but I answered on the basis that a reasonably full tcl
implementation was expected. wish, wm/wish, tclsh, and mathcalc are the
only tools which use the tcllib module. Note also that, since tcllib is a module,
it is written in Limbo, so that the best way to port it to Plan 9 is to run Inferno.

Nigel (@vitanuova.com)