About the Tcl/Tk Project
at Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions, we are unable to provide an executable version of Tcl/Tk at this time. Instead, we have provided the source code for both Tcl and Tk, which can be compiled by you into a working package. Demo Tk scripts are included in the source release.

Sun Microsystems Laboratories Tcl/Tk - Tcl is a simple scripting language that makes it easy to build programmable applications and connect them together. Tk is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Tcl: it allows you to create GUI applications by writing Tcl scripts instead of C code. Together, Tcl and Tk make it possible to build GUI applications five to twenty times more quickly than with traditional toolkits based on C or C+. Because Tcl is an interpreted language, it provides instantaneous turnaround during testing (no long waits for compilation), but also requires high-performance systems, especially for large applications. The fast processors and blazing graphics of Sun's new Ultra machines are ideally suited to executing Tcl/Tk scripts, even for complex tasks.