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Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

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Re: Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

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post #11

i feel like a good business idea would be showing new product names / logos to a group of 50 people from various demographics and ages to see if the name clashes with something else. bc this one quite quite funny

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Re: Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

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post #12

For TCL? But why?

Tcl had a very short time in the fickle web dev spotlight, mostly due to Aolserver and Philip Greenspun. Something between CGI with Perl and whatever Java had to offer in the deep end of the 90s.

At that time, a few lucky folks made way too much money using weird languages for the fledgling commercial internet.

http://aolserver.github.io

https://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/

Re: Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has one of the only truly cross platform UI toolkits.

ok but like....thats for desktop application development... ...this is the web, a completely different and totally unrelated beast.

tk works on mobile as well.

Re: Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has one of the only truly cross platform UI toolkits.

ok but like....thats for desktop application development... ...this is the web, a completely different and totally unrelated beast.

I did write a Tcl web system back in the 2000's that was close to the Tk programming model, although not quite a one-to-one. Here is an example of side by side programs for Tk and Aejaks: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/%C3%86jaks+compares+to+Tcl%2F...

Some other screen shots: http://aejaks.sourceforge.net/Screen_Shots/index.html

This was made with the Java based Echo toolkit, and the Jtcl interpreter (Tcl implemented in Java.)

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