From:	 "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 20)
Date:	 Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:56:56 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "I've only just recently started learning tcl and I'm already
falling in love with it, no doubt that this incredibly informative board
has had something to do with it."  Jonathon Epps

"Tcl is an astonishing productivity tool, and Wippler's additions put
rocket boots on something that is quite capable of stratospheric flight
in its own right."  Steve Blinkhorn
     
    Here's an example:  for years, people have threatened to
    modularize the Tcl core somehow to make significant pieces
    of it loadable (and also dispensable).  Jean-Claude
    Wippler has suddenly taken action.  One of his CriTcl
    demonstrations moves an eighth of the Tcl core--the
    regular expressions code--into a separate object.
    Amazing!
	http://mini.net/tcl/1204.html

    morgan mair fheal offers the C source to cascade forks and
    thus insulate a (grand)child process from the vagaries of
    its (grand)parent.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f2e297379d9c150c

    Threading, printing, ... rumble on at their usual modest
    level of interest and accomplishment.  Andreas Kupries'
    documentation, and David Gravereaux instruction on Windows
    architecture, has elevated channel coding to new heights,
    though.
	http://mini.net/tcl/channel

    Jens-Achim Kessel describes a fascinating application that
    involves combustion engines, user customization, realtime
    databases, GUIs, and more.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5157f2526c33752e

    This week's Wiki treasures include clocks, statistical
    functions, graph theory from mazes to NP-completeness,
    bytecode introspection, and much more.
	http://mini.net/tcl/4.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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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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