"tkinter"
Christian Gollwitzer
auriocus at gmx.de
Wed Sep 13 11:35:26 EDT 2017
Am 13.09.17 um 16:15 schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On 2017-09-13, Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> When I started my technical career 20+ years ago, tcl/tk was
>> pronounced "tickle" by the engineers. Not sure if that was correct
>> then or now.
>
> I've always heard "tickle" as the pronounciation for "TCL". I've
> never heard anybody try to pronounce TCL/Tk.
>
It's indeed usually pronounced "tickle" T K in the Tcl community. The
feather icon alludes to the "tickle" part, and "TK" is an acronym for
"toolkit". Somtimes people prefer spelling "T C L", but most use "tickle".
Reference: I've been at some EuroTcl conferences. The talks are on
youtube, too:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHNnTryxvDncfQbxbzfE4XMogoTa6pknP
Christian
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