Dr. Dobb's TCL-URL!

From:	 Arjen Markus <Arjen.Markus@wldelft.nl>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 23)
Date:	 Thu, 23 May 2002 19:14:03 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "I'm glad it's fast, but it seems suspiciously too fast."  Kurt
Sierens, on Tk 8.4

"If I had to point at _one_ thing that impresses me most about the TCL
community as a whole, it's this. It moves ideas off the newsgroup queue
and to a more visible area where people can comment on them, add
additional comments, etc. I like it very much."  Rob Seegel


    Suppose you have a GUI application written in Java.  It doesn't
    satisfy you.  What are the alternatives?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9e2672ad83eede15

    The network is the computer.  What time is it on the computer?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2b03a594088aa0a3


This week on the Wiki:
    Issues related to interprocess communication:
    - Watching what goes on at a socket: 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/2256.html
    - Need access to serial ports? 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3370.html
      or 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/1838.html
      for Windows-related issues.
    - Simple technique for interacting with, say, a Fortran program:
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3359.html

    HTML, Web browsers:
    - It can be done with a few lines: 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/2993.html
      shows how to use Tkhtml.

    Graphics:
    - The Dragon curve: 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3349.html
    - A little function plotter was already availabe,
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/988.html
      but far more fun is its companion: 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/1663.html
    
    Data structures and algorithms:
    - Interested in the finer points of functional programming?
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3309.html
      discusses the deferred evaluation, a way to get variables
      to reference others and have them updated when necessary.
    - Logical quantifiers "For-all-elements",
      "There-is-at-least-one-element" - it can all be done, just
      follow the yellow-brick road at    
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/3378.html


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.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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  

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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