From: "Matt Newman" <matt@sensus.org>
Subject: README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources (Sep 27)
Date: 27 Sep 1999 20:31:25 -0700

I would like to extend my thanks to Jeff Hobbs for stepping in at such
short notice for last week's Tcl-URL! - the New Jersey telecommunications
infrastructure proved to not be very resistant to extremes of weather!

    Abelson, Greenspun, and Sandon have freshened
    their on-line introduction to Tcl
        http://photo.net/teaching/manuals/tcl/index.adp

   Suggested roadmap for Tcl/Tk 8.3 and follow-up discussions.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/529197527

    Long discussion about potentially introducing new comment styles, and
    the implications (a Tcl 9.0 timeframe issue)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/527807331

    Eval and Concat - a discussion about the damage that can be done by
    performing string concatenation instead of list concatenation, and
    various suggestions for improving the current situation.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/526255680

    A surprisingly long discussion was spawned by Jeff Hobbs polling for
    comments on changing the semantics of [unset] to not throw errors. One
    of the highlights of this discussion is a very concise summary by Don
    Libes of the existing inconsistencies in Tcl with respect to errors.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/528330762

    A comparison of speed between Tcl and Python for numerical algorithms,
    leading to various tips for improving the speed of such Tcl programs.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/528778207

    Support for reading zip files from Tcl, which leads to a discussion of
    wrapping scripts and executable content into a single executable for
    efficient delivery.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/527589202

    Discussion of the limitations of [clock scan] (such as not supporting
    most ISO dates) and various issues (such as I18N) surrounding improving
    it.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/thread/525922682

    A how-to based upon one persons experiences getting Tcl compiled using
    the Cygwin libraries.
        http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/tcl/cygwin-howto.txt

    Neat trick for computing a LRC.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=527692330


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.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/


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