From:	 "Stuart Cassoff",stwo@sympatico.ca
To:	 Dr.@starbase.neosoft.com, Dobb's@starbase.neosoft.com,
	 Tcl-URL@starbase.neosoft.com, distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 18)
Date:	 Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:24:20 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "[...] there is no way for Tcl to know about the scope
of visibility for arrayName. It's your job as a Tcl C extension
writer to manage the lifetime of Tcl_Obj objects." -- Jacob Levy

"[T]he only truly primitive operation [in Tcl] is string
substitution."  Kevin Kenny

"UTF-8 has a certain purity in that it equally annoys every nation,
and is nobody's default encoding." -- Andy Robinson


    Try/catch exception handling in the core.  Much discussion.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=44dd39a7b0801477

    Garbage collection in Tcl (continued)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1ab5116783a07097&seekm=3C95CAD3.BFEB7553%40cs.man.ac.uk

    Legalities of embedded TCL?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76ab4de83be77f1a

    For some reasion, this starts out in 1994!  About files,
    reading, and improvements that have come into tcl along the way.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a6022e3e28f7c08c

    Fast, faster!  Fastest?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=85ec425fc402873

    Animated GIFs, TkHtml.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a55b1f9ebaacfdfa

    Want to play with raw packets, eh?  Just remember to wash your hands.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f470da52bf3d4731

    Interesting discusison (on BLT, TEA, packages, threads),
    a good bit of back-and-forth by clt regulars.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=495ff47c06b2e790

    Tk scaling, measuring DPI.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=82a5cb93588d5e42

    Tcl_NewStringObj leaks?  Not at all!
    Great info about object creation/destruction.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7a60afb99515870d

    Tgdb is a single debugger GUI able to debug both C and Tcl simultaneously
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=119ce68d.0203110848.2441e1a%40posting.google.com

    The ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 beta 2 release is based on the final Tcl/Tk 8.4a4
    language core and incorporates the usual standard ActiveTcl module set.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3ebe045fe55e0c96

    TCL Macro Package for Win
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C911FB7.2000403%40spameepatents.com
    
    Animated GIF package
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200203151412.22965%40despot.non.net

    moodss-15.10 is a Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The
    Centre of The Ultraworld
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C94D029.1D666E3C%40free.fr

    Taiku the multilingual editor:  use it to write a haiku!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C959A03.28E674AE%40siemens.com


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://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

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    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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