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/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Tcl-URL! Team [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]