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According to Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk>:
:What's Tix?

Tix is one of the dozens of extra X11 widget libraries available in
Tcl.

:My understanding of Tcl is that it is not a particularly good 
:language for manipulating data structures and algorithms (I've not
:actually used it, but it looks more like sh or csh than a real
:programming langauge to me).

Actually, those of us using tcl find it particularly good for getting work
done.  Whether or not it is 'particularly good for manipulating data
structures' depends on your viewpoint of programming.  Tcl is intended
to do scripting for the simple things, and manipulating of ports,
specific fixed data structures,etc. at a C level.  It makes a very clean
and simple API to add in your own code to do the lower level things when
needed.

PS using terms like 'real programming language' would normally be 'fightin'
words.  However, since they are mentioned in the same thread as asking for
some way to write GUIs using resources, it seems like the term is probably
being used out of context in some manner.  Certainly one would not do
'real programming' thru the use of GUIs.

As for variety of ways of building GUIs, the software catalog at
<URL:http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/part4.html> lists a few.  I know
that several people prefer Wafe, which allows one to do GUI programming
in a variety of languages.

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