Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:
    If you want full obfuscation, just write it 
    in Perl.  Bill Poser on c.l.t
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/88bac5d1...

    Standards are GREAT!  And, there's soooooooo 
    many to choose from!!  Allodoxaphobia on c.l.t
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/21dc026f...


POTW:
    ANNOUNCE: TclRAL Version 0.8.3 by Andrew Mangogna
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    TclRAL is a "C" based extension to Tcl that makes available a Tuple and 
    Relation data types as native Tcl objects and supplies a complete set of 
    relational algebraic operators for these types. 
    Version 0.8.3 is primarily a bug fix release, however several new 
    commands were added. Most notable is "relation compose" which rounds 
    out the "relation join" family of commands (i.e. join, semijoin, semiminus 
    and compose). 
    The project is hosted at Sourceforge and the TEA compliant source package 
    as well as precompiled binaries for both Linux and Windows compiled against 
    both Tcl 8.4 and Tcl8.5 are available there. 
    Homepage:
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclral

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    Expr without braces
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    nahh, never

    stdin stdout on windows
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    some explanations, some tricks

    regexp standards
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    see QOTW ;-))

    ISO: technique to pass multiple arguments to a windows bat file
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    rites of a faint religion.

    Will TCL UDP Extension 1.0.6 support HPUX?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    er, yes from 1.0.9 onwards.

    Tclet logging -- How?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    USB-UIRT
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Expect/Tkterm screen scraping?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly reports on the Wikis:
  One nice new feature of the Wiki struck your chronicler the other
  day: if you search for a term that is used in a lot of pages, you
  can now get the next batch and the next and the next ...
  
  A bit on Wikis and stuff
  - If you want a new feature in Wikit, why not add it yourself?
    Here is one with chapters: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19593>
  
  - Okay, there seems to be some written material on Jacl.net.
    But where? Just another secret of the Tcl community at
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13178>
  
  - Tcl as a glue language? COM On, see for yourself:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4094> is the penultimate demonstration
    of different extensions cooperating to produce a small,
    if not tiny, web browser.
  
  Bits on OO, maths, games 
  - For anyone interested in OO programming with Tcl, the 
    page on TIP #257 is a must - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14754>
    But from there on there are lots of other pages to enjoy,
    like <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18440>
  
  - Expect is an amazing extension to Tcl. One of the applications
    is a way to disassociate a program from the console you started
    it on - making it run independently. See:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9263> for details.
  
  - Relational algebra has some nice applications, here is a 
    way to detect all header files a C soure file depends on:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18203> as a demonstration of a more 
    general principle.
  
  - Mazes are fun and intricate ... and you can change them during
    this game - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10442> (or doesn't it work yet?)
  
  - Carry data around and not feel the burden? Well, maybe all it
    requires is a bit of TAO - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19536>
  
  - For those among us who read French, <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1376> 
    holds a translation of a little story about a few hard-working
    Tclers.
  

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/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, 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
    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://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/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.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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