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The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk 8.5.

I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I 
wondered if someone else was?

It would be great to have a new edition that covered all the new things 
added in 8.6 and 9.0 (esp. OO), and ideally also at least introduced 
Tcllib and Tklib (which I don't think the original book covers).

Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
> The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk 8.5.
> I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I 
> wondered if someone else was?

Well, regarding "if someone else was", there is this book
   "The TCL Programming Language" by Ashok P. Nadkarni

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BOOK+The+Tcl+Programming+Language

Have a look if this satisfies your reading needs ;-)

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:49:03 -0000 (UTC), Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

> Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
>> The excellent book "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 2nd edition covers Tcl/Tk
>> 8.5.
>> I know that Professor Ousterhout isn't planning a 3rd edition, but I
>> wondered if someone else was?
> 
> Well, regarding "if someone else was", there is this book
>    "The TCL Programming Language" by Ashok P. Nadkarni
> 
> https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BOOK+The+Tcl+Programming+Language
> 
> Have a look if this satisfies your reading needs ;-)

I've got that book too and although it is comprehensive it is by no means 
a tutorial, so I still find "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" much easier to learn 
from. Of course, Ashok's book also covers OO and some of Tcllib which the 
older book doesn't.

However, I still think an equivalent to a "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" 3rd 
edition is needed to cover all the things that the 2nd edition doesn't 
(Tcl/Tk 8.6 and 9.0, TclOO), so I really hope someone writes it!