<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>The Linux Tcl and Tk HOWTO: Tcl/Tk History</TITLE> <LINK HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-3.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-1.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="TclTk-HOWTO.html#toc2" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-3.html">Next</A> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-1.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO.html#toc2">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s2">2. Tcl/Tk History</A></H2> <P> <P>Tcl/Tk originated with <A HREF="mailto:ouster@scriptics.com">Dr. John Ousterhout</A> (pronounced "Oh'-stir-howt") while teaching at University of California, Berkeley, Califor nia. He actually started implementing it when he got back to Berkeley in the spring of 1988; by summer of that year it was in use in some internal applications, but there was no Tk. Read about the history of Tcl/Tk directly from its author 's words at <A HREF="http://www.scriptics.com/scripting/tclHistory.html">www.scripti cs.com/scripting/tclHistory.html</A>. <H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 Cronology</A> </H2> <P> <UL> <LI><B>1989:</B> The first external releases of Tcl and beginning of Tk imp lemention;</LI> <LI><B>1991</B>: First release of Tk;</LI> <LI><B>1994:</B> Dr. Ousterhout was hired by Sun Microsystems, Inc.: he was a Distinguished Engineer and led the Tcl project.</LI> <LI><B>April/May 1997:</B> the Sun research group responsible for Tcl devel opment were spun off into a Sun business group called SunScript. However, things chan ged again soon afterwards. You can read more about that evolution selecting "SunSc ript_story" at URL: <A HREF="http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/">Su nScript-Story</A> .</LI> <LI><B>August 1997:</B> a Tcl Consortium was formed. </LI> <LI><B>February 1998:</B> Dr. Ousterhout left Sun to create <A HREF="http://www.scriptics.com/">Scriptics</A>, a company dedicated to scripting tools, applications, and services. According to <A HREF=" http://www.scriptics.com/about/news/qa.html">www.scriptics.com /about/news/qa.html</A>, core Tcl and Tk remain free, with the team at Sun continuing work right now on Tcl/Tk 8.1. After the next release, the intention is that work on the core will migrate from Sun to Scriptics, with the Sun team will focus more on Tcl extensions and applications.</LI> <LI><B>April 23, 1998:</B> the Association for Computing Machinery <A HREF="http://www.acm.org/">ACM</A> awarded the 1997 Software System Award to John Ousterhout and Scriptics ( <A HREF="http://www.acm.org/awards/">www.acm.org/awards/</A>). This award is given to an institution or individual recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concept s, in commercial acceptance, or both.</LI> </UL> <HR> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-3.html">Next</A> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO-1.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="TclTk-HOWTO.html#toc2">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>