Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "That's not really the hard way.  The procs are not that long, and
just build on the core functionality that the text widget provides.  At some
level, the programmer has to make his living writing *something*.  ;^)"
Jeff Hobbs
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Xns932B93A2AD0EFjeffh.activestate%4064.187.24.4

"Benchmarks are untrusthworthy in any case, unless you explicitly and
expertly construct them for your use case."  Michael Schlenker


POTW:  Tk_familypractice
    http://sf.net/projects/tkfp/

    
    Sending a Password to a web site via Tcl
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnb54vor.lnh.xx087%40freenet9.carleton.ca
    
    Clipboard Voodoo
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnb570o3.1gl.jan.keirse%40mylinux.local
    
    Filtering a Process
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnb5a04v.ijn.xx087%40freenet9.carleton.ca
    
    Finding the minimum string match
        http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=b97b10607eced61c
    
    Working with Threads
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=33f4eb1e79b7100d
    
    Examing input from stdin
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=81ece2081e1957a4
    
    Hiding Procs
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns932988ED5D304rohanrohanpallcom%4066.185.95.104
    
    Selecting text with tags
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3E57BB27.6020306%40ActiveState.com
    
    ANNOUNCE
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    Oil 0.1.1 - An extension for graphics and media with SDL. 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=b30fmu%249u6%241%40atlantis.news.tpi.pl
    
    lipsumcolor 1.1 - with font chooser 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b32oje%24r2%241%40news-reader10.wanadoo.fr
    
    The Snack Sound Toolkit v2.2.1
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E55F88B.811EC1E8%40speech.kth.se
    
    a(Huge)ListBox v 1.1
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=29de415e.0302220717.56fb9137%40posting.google.com
    
    Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 rpms with thread 2.5 extension 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=4244613b.0302240738.4f93e4c4%40posting.google.com
    
  
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki reports: 
  The Wiki page with recent changes has undergone a facelift - it may seem
  shorter now, but it is only because duplicates have disappeared. Two
  sets of pages drew the particular attention of your Wiki chronicler these
  last two weeks:  several serious technical ones and a few of a more
  whimsical nature. Let us start with the first set:
  
  - A development environment for Xotcl is described at
    <http::/wiki.tcl.tk/2131>
  
  - Event handling taken to the next level: with and without Tk,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8235> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8392>
  
  - What tools do we need to work with Tcl? A wishlist at 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3875>
  
  - Working with binary data can be challenging. Receive a few lessons 
    and become comfortable with them at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1180>
  
  These are the more playful pages that I would like to bring into the
  light:
  - An old thought experiment, OO in one-liners, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1225>
  
  - Is there a system to the thinking of experts? Well, one can always try
    to make an expert system in pure Tcl, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8359>
  
  - Or create a toy script that generates ridiculous names at random, but
    with a twist, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8374>

  More recently:
  - Richard Suchenwirth is busy with his iPaq - just an example, a file
    browser, at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8442>, to get an impressive impression
  
  - You have a brilliant idea, and want it discussed? Put it on the Wiki,
    and see what comes out. Literate programming is one such idea -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8411>
  
  - If you need access to multimedia libraries, one such library is SDL
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4607>, but there is also OpenAL and Snack (see
    the links on that page)
  
  - Critcl goes C++ - after C and Fortran, this is the third language
    in a row, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8403> 
    
  - The Simple Library is intended to assist in developing Tcl software.
    Now a new public release is available.
  
  - Oh, and a small demo by your humble chronicler: a grep-like 
    utility at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8405>
  
    
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

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/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/   

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