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 (Oct 15) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:30:53 -0500 (CDT) QOTW: David Gravereaux wrote: "An even more interesting approach is to use Tcl just for its C API. One doesn't have to call Tcl_CreateInterp() at all :) . . ." Don Porter replied, "Yes. Tcl as a WOOD [*] library. Another fine tradition." Note the gloss: [*] Wipe Out OS Differences There seems to be no complete statistical package in Tcl, not even as a front-end for a general library. Pity. Oh, be careful when reading raw data, a typo can cause psychological mayhem! http://groups.google.com/groups?th=78160e409d465550 There will be a Lightweight Languages Workshop. Everybody is invited! An opportunity mayhap to talk natural language processing http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5f77a83bd0732c27 http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/tcl98/full_papers/declarke_poster/declarke_html/declarke.html Eggdrops and bots keep wandering through comp.lang.tcl rather inconclusively. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=efb2264cf3796555 http://pt-scripters.ptlink.net/tcl.php Environment variables continue to puzzle people. Does the tutorial answer the ontological and eschatological questions surrounding them, with special emphasis to the weird existence they do and don't have on Windows? http://mini.net/tcl/706.html Food for thought from James Garrison: quite worthy reading, this success story. Should be published! http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2cd51695417e3ff5 Adding 4 more bytes to any integer: Donal is trying desperately. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=255f1ee852ec3c4 mini.net is hijacked by accident. Please do not blame BMW, certainly as it seems that they use Tcl extensively via Gipsy and many a Tcl programmer likes their cars (at least I found one or two resumes to that effect). http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7dcfe4eca0753cf1 Benedict Chng brings Tcl to a Java audience. http://jw.itworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-tcl.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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/ The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl. http://purl.org/mini/tcl/0 For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..." http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969 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. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.