From:	 kennykb@acm.org (Kevin Kenny)
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 28)
Date:	 Mon, 28 May 2001 16:55:29 -0500 (CDT)

Another rich week for quotes!  Neil Madden: I tend to stop coding before
adding the finishing touches to a Java program, whereas in Tcl it was
all finished days ago :-).
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5218ca9cf3abdda6
Cameron Laird: "Phil [Ehrens] is a Tcl expert."  Phil Ehrens: "Ooh,
I'm putting that in my resume.  It's not as good as 'lord of Tcl', or
'Laird of Tcl', but it's better than 'oh yeah, this is Phil, he's
a... uh, a Tcl :programmer... snicker, snicker!' "
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6dc3e51f63466588

    Richard Suchenwirth has Tcl "playing assembler" in another fun
    "weekend project."  His comment: "it again thrilled me how far we get
    with writing a page of Tcl code..."
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1613
    
    Miguel Sofer comes up with a source-level optimization for list
    surgery that's even uglier (but about 10% faster) than the K
    combinator.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a936da927591ac16
    
    Richard Suchenwirth invites commentary on "Internationalization:
    Writing for the World."
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1614
    
    Richard Suchenwirth demonstrates complex arithmetic in Tcl:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1612
    
    Eric Leunissen posts a hilarious bug caused by a cut-and-paste error
    in a Tcl script.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=d77e0e9d8bc76868
    
    Peter De Rijk announces version 2.0 of ExtraL, his library of
    extra Tcl commands, including a wealth of additions for processing
    large lists:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=86fb28c7a624814
        http://rrna.uia.ac.be/extral/
    
    Peter also announces ClassyTcl and ClassyTk, a combined object system,
    widget set and GUI builder for Tcl:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=4990192717384d4e
        http://rrna.uia.ac.be/classytcl/
    
    Jean-Claude Wippler announces TclKit 8.4.22:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=43ee22ccad75b70c
        http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/
    
    Kare Sjolander announces the SNACK Sound Toolkit 2.1:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3ebc81713cb7af77
        http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/


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.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html

    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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/

    Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity
        http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 

    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

    Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://www.egroups.com/list/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://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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