From: "H. Simpson" <nospam@...>
Date: 2004-08-03T12:21:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does Ruby use both tcl83.dll and tk83.dll (instead of just tk83.dll)?

Mike Hall wrote:
> H. Simpson  wrote:
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>>Does tk require tcl? 
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> Absolutely.  Tk operations and events are scripted in Tcl.
> Look for a 'Scripts' directory under your Tk installation.
> Much of the behaviour of buttons, listboxes, menus, and dialogs
> is done with Tcl.
> 
> 
>> I thought tk was simply a c api...
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> It very well may be...   for Tcl!  :-)
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> 

Seems that perl-tk somehow removed the Tcl part of Tk.

Hmmm.  The compiled part of that project might be useful for other 
languages (like c/c++ or Ruby) to directly use Tk without the 
overhead+benefits of Tcl.