What is perl/Tk?
Perl/Tk (also known as pTk or ptk) is a collection of modules and code that attempts to wed the easily configured Tk 8 widget toolkit to the powerful lexigraphic, dynamic memory, I/O, and object-oriented capabilities of Perl 5. In other words, it is an interpreted scripting language for making widgets and programs with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). (Examples of widget programs [not necessarily written in Perl/Tk] include xterm, xclock, most web-browsers, etc.. They are programs with “GUI” interfaces of one sort or another and are subject to the effects of your window manager.) The current release (as of February 2003) of Perl/Tk is based on Tk8.0 (first released in 1998), the widget Toolkit originally associated with the Tcl (Tool command language) scripting language. However, from a Perl perspective, Perl/Tk does not require any familiarity with Tcl, nor does its installation depend on any Tcl code apart from that packaged within Perl/Tk. Perl/Tk uses perl 5 syntax, grammar, and da
