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I was flipping through my Learning Debian Linux book when out comes one of those little cards with the different books O' Reilly sells. I was looking at some of the books and and I didnt know what some of them are.
So my questions are what excatcly is TCL/TK?? the BASH shell??? Qt??? Should a person know these things or are they just for people who want to be advanced with linux???
Thanks for any help
Fondor
07-08-2001, 07:10 PM
Most of that stuff is for development, excepting the bash shell. Thats what you use when you use the command prompt (unless you use tcsh zsh). You can get by without knowing them although some of the libraries of these products are needed for things like kde
Well, aside from doing a search on google.com or just looking at the oreilly.com website, I can tell you that
TCL/TK is a combination of a scripting / programming language and library. TK is a component that is used to create X apps.
The BASH shell is probably the most popular and most used shell under Linux. If you login to any current Linux distro, you're most likely using BASH.
QT is another language / library to allow the creation of GUI apps under X. The biggest thing I've seen done with QT is KDE.