Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 14)

QOTW:  "So far I'm quite impressed with CMake - it is the best thing I have
seen to date that lets projects build from one build system definition on
Windows, OSX, and the various unix/linux systems." - Clifford Yapp

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=A...


    Swank is quite interesting, already in serious use for many
    years, and available now as Release 3.0.0a2--yet many Tclers
    remain unaware of it:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Regular Expressions sure *look* like an answer of some sort,
    and indeed all should learn them.  There are so many pitfalls
    along the way, though ...:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  A well-hidden secret of the Wiki is the "Half Bakery". It is a 
  repository of, well, possibly-not-quite-finished projects. If
  you read the summary below, then try http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/repo/
  - including the last slash.
  
  Old pages
  - From time to time "K" pops up again. While few people understand
    its significance in the theory of combinators and logic, it 
    remains a little gem: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1923>
  
  - As "simple" and "XML" are not quite combinable in a positive
    sense, we have to rely on more or less vast packages to deal
    with XML files. One of these packages is <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1950>.
  
  - How to quantify how similar two strings are, say "Tomato" and "Potato"? 
    This vexing question is discussed on this page:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3070>
  
  - And to finish this part of the summary: an age-old problem 
    concerning binary and decimal representations of numbers pops
    up in this lovely page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1591>
  
  Not-so-old pages
  - It may not seem very useful, a jittering window, but it does 
    get someone's attention. So here you: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14459>
  
  - Object-oriented programming provides a vast ground for trickery.
    So, before there was a tutorial, there was this page:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21595>
  
  Brandnew pages
  - Yes, "a" TclOO tutorial can be found on the Wiki as from this
    week on: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27644>. Maybe an old(ish) guy like
    your Wiki chronicler can learn it now!
  
  - With a vector-based font at your disposal, putting characters
    in any orientation is easy. Here is the font: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27638>. Rotation is to added still ...
  
  - The art of Zen is making it into the art of describing
    data structures. Terse and efficient. See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27642>


Everything Tcl-related 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
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
        http://www.tcl.tk

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

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/tcl/

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
        http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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