From: "Matt Newman" <matt@novadigm.com>
Subject: README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources (May 10)
Date: 10 May 1999 10:58:45 -0700

This week Tcl-Url! Editor: Matt Newman <matt@sensus.org>


It has been a busy week of Tcl 8.1 bug submissions and discussions. Keep
those bug reports comming - we all benefit from reaching production
stability with Tcl 8.1 ASAP.

Quote of the Week:
"how do you want to be irritated beyond belief today?" - Dave LeBlanc (Re:
MS Help Files and VC++ 6.0)

Tcl-URL! is changing format with the help of Daniel and Brent at Scriptics.
(See url below for more information)
   http://www.scriptics.com/tclurl


Discussion of 8.1 vs 8.0 performance, and why 8.1 is so much slower for
character manipulation. Required reading for anyone who has
performance-critical applications.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=475452431


Long discussion on improving the string command interface to more directly
support real-world applications.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474374687


Bryan Oakley has started what promises to be a long thread entitled "tcl/tk
9.0 - remove the warts! (?)". Lots of discussion about cleaning up the
command namespace and the inconsistancies in the [list] command.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474822904


Adding major/minor subcommands to new or existing commands (Announcement
and Discussion)- breaks out  in to an interesting thread on the byte
compiler.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474332371


Curried commands and lamdas in pure Tcl (Announcement and Discussion)
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474276792


If you have ever been frustrated by shared libs on HP-UX this patch is a
must!
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474842129


Nice discussion on the many ways of representing complex structured data in
Tcl.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474877938


What the heck is foo anyway!
   http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/frames/F/foo.html


"These are a few of my favorite things" (or do you hear the sound of
music?) 
[Please join in and add your favorites to this thread]
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=473006839


Tk8.1 strongly unstable with --enable-thread
[The Scriptics team are very interested in getting detailed reports on this
issue]
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=473382164


Last weeks Tcl-URL! mention of Tcl vs. Perl spawned some interesting
debate.
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=473460619


Opening URL's in the browser (Sample Code)
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=473889119


The Dangers of \x
  http://www.deja.com /getdoc.xp?AN=474138357



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/

    Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
        http://www.scriptics.com/resource/

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

    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/

    Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce
        http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/

    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.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/


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  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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