This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW:  "He's the best coder I've ever seen."  D. Richard Hipp on John
Ousterhout, in relation to the Tcl source base

"There's an excellent train connection to get from A to B.  Do we need
to build an airport and take the plane, because it has in-flight
movies?"  Jean-Claude Wippler on .NET

"I've been playing with infinite lists in combinator algebra. Lazy
evaluation is fun."  Kevin Kenny


POTW:  "VFWTcl is a tcl library for Win32 that provides the ability to
acquire video from any source (webcam, camera, scanner) and to display
and/or capture it in an avi file."  http://avicaptcl.sourceforge.net/


    Jacob Levy releases 1.0a7 of e4Graph.
	http://e4graph.com/e4graph
	
    A rather remarkable team releases, "The Year in Scripting Languages ..."
	http://www.vendian.org/language_year
	
    Jeffrey Hobbs offers a slick hack for testing whether applications
    deal with files larger than 2Gb.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=22f585554893023c

    How can you make a global hotkey?  Tk can't--without help.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=aedf668159ca0827


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    
    The year is still fresh, but already there is a wealth of new pages 
    to be found on the Wiki. This is but a small selection:
    
    Special user-interface or graphical effects:
    
    - Animated vertical tabs are described and implemented on 
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6253>
    
    - Did you always want to have a window in the form and appearance of a 
      finger-print, well check out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6229> for this
      particular shape and others too.
    
    - Have the computer talk back to you? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6252> tells you
      in so many words it is possible. For an overview of multi-media
      applications with Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/864>
    
    Specific terms explained:
    
    - The Wiki category Java, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6219>, gives a whole bunch
      of pages describing various aspects of combining Tcl and Java
    
    - There is a page on Geographic Information Systems, with links to more
      explanatory publications (Open GIS for instance).
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2459>
    
    - The recent discussion of Tcl for .NET can perhaps be better understood
      if you have a good understanding of .NET - see <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6192>
      for an overview
    
    Helpful little toys:
    
    - The "let" command makes a bridge between Tcl's syntax and other languages
      - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2510> or more elaborated, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2696>.
    
    - Copying to the clipboard makes life easy for the more demanding e-mailer
      on Windows: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6230>
    
    Person to person:
    
    - Various Tcl User Groups in the make: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6228> for
      instance and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4207> in general
    
  
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/      

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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