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.

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