Dr. Dobbs' Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  [How many times have we heard this before...] "Do you want to
communicate with many sockets and serial ports?  Standard Tcl has a way
to do this that is BETTER than threading.  As Jeff summarizes, the event
loop suffices."  Cameron Laird
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=v4f6tr9qgbhf61%40corp.supernews.com

"I can't completely argue with working software."  Donald Porter


POTW:  XCircuit is an electronic schematic drawing program.
    http://xcircuit.ece.jhu.edu/download.html


    Ref Counting Lessons ...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1688ba15328ebc27
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=586ee7f718242fd3
    
    Is the week for Performance Issues?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c13f1de587e8517b
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=55f1dc6a0fa44bf
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fa3460bc0c817b77
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bd6e5f70e978c63a
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=de77d552ae40a8c9

    Jeff Godfrey, Bryan Oakley, Donald Arsenau, and Bruce Hartweg
    discuss deep focus-grab-event issues in tackling a thorny
    Windows misfeature
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=d38e202598d79cb0
    
ANNOUCEMENTS
    lipsumcolor 1.02
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b1tmpe%24464%241%40news-reader11.wanadoo.fr
    
    Snit V0.8 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200302082032.17417%40despot.non.net
    
    IOCP socket channel driver for windows
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f42a415513d0cb9d


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    The Wiki shows a bunch of new pages concerned with all manner of graphics,
    such as the Hilbert Curve and Morley's Miracle (<http://wiki.tcl.tk/8348>
    and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8336>). 
    
    But for those with a keen interest in coding techniques, try a novel
    (ab)use of traces, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8345> that allows you to tag
    variables with metadata. Or discover the joys of programming invariants,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8338>.
    
    The next pages answer a few questions:
    - The structure for a starkit (or can you do anything you like?)
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4078>
    - What things can you configure about Wikit? A lot it turns out at
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4416>
    - Can you do "ordinary" calculations like "x = y * z" in Tcl? 
      Sure, you can: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1285>
    - Can you run a single command - not interactively, but just pass 
      it on the command-line? Of course: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/906>
    
    This page raises a few questions:
    - Suppose you want to use the keyboard to traverse a list, what
      do you have to think of? The page <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8332> 
      outlines the issues.
     
  
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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