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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!
From: Dan Smart <dan@dansmart.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 29)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 20:19:57 -0500 (CDT)
QOTW: "Tcl is a rich multi-purpose C library with a mighty powerful
configuration language." Richard Suchenwirth (with many predecessors
through the years)
"Tcl is so good in introspection, that you should always have an
interactive tclsh around for testing - way faster than c.l.t, and more
convenient than reading the man pages, or thinking oneself ;-)" Richard
Suchenwirth
"I forgot to mention that if there is one thing that I have learnt from
the Tcl/Tk community it's that there is no such thing as a 'Stupid
beginner'." Ro Wiijkejak
An interesting series of articles on interacting with time servers.
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=aclo77%24gv%243%40srv38.cas.org&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75
How to manipulate TCL lists from C, it's much easier in TCL :-)
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=3CEDD73C.46E80467%40iit.demokritos.gr&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75
Creating new data types in C.
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=3CED4C6D.8050601%40volleynet.de&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75
The thread on migrating from Java to TCL ran and ran (consensus,
it's a good idea :-).
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=3CF1F9AD.B445EAFE%40cs.man.ac.uk&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D25
Why writing a native code compiler for TCL would be hard:
And the benefits may be limited: the slow bits are coded in C any way...
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=3CF1EDD2.25FF6F0F%40cs.man.ac.uk&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D25
IMG takes up residence at SourceForge.
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&start=150&hl=en&lr=&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=87y9eetyt9.fsf%40bluepeak.home
TkPieChart updated to 6.5
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=3ce9ec76%241%40usenetgateway.com&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D150
Worries expressed over maintenance status of Tcl-DP. But it's OK,
it's now on SourceForge
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&threadm=1022082103.29737.0.nnrp-08.c1edaf70%40news.demon.co.uk&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcldp
Arjen Markus reports on what the Wiki can mean for you this week:
- Old and new ways of working with lists:
Mapping the elements of a list is explained by Richard Suchenwirth
as yet another fun(ctional) programming example
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3401.html
But maybe you need to analyse the list itself. Do not worry:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3398.html
and
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3400.html
may help out.
- Tcl was once a way to make (C) programs easily extendible, well
this is still of interest. Try these pages:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2516.html
for C extensions on the fly
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2074.html
if you need to do it the hard way
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2419.html
if you need to do it on Windows
- Time is, as always, a problem, many people lack it, others do not
know what to do with it :-). Help is offered on the Network Time
Protocol:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3391.html
- Some bits and pieces, like object-oriented programming, threads:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/970.html
for an overview of OO-extensions
http://wiki.tcl.tk/62.html
for one of the best-known of these and last but not least: threads.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1339.html
explains when to use them and when not.
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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