From: Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan  5)
Date: 5 Jan 2000 06:52:35 -0600

    With the onset of 8.3, people are starting to take note of some
    of the positive new effects.  Nijtmans answers one query as to
    why perceptions of a faster canvas widget are likely reality.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565745356

    Poindexter releases v1.2 of TclTicker, the stock ticket program,
    after receiving lots of enthusiastic ideas.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565928002
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/apps/tclticker/1.2/

    Brian starts a long thread about the upcoming ::listx command.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566233578

    While Kupries makes a note of what's there so far, with
    available source code.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/tcltk.html
        http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/listx-src.tar.gz

    An interesting article on O'Reilly's web site ponders whether
    scripting languages can really call themselves VHLL (the author
    forgot to mention Tcl - maybe that's why the author concludes
    scripting languages lack the V? :^)
        http://www.oreilly.com/news/vhll_1299.html

    Welch informs us of another Tcl/Tk track at the next O'Reilly
    Open Source Convention, in July 2000.  Gerald Lester will be
    heading it up.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566204603
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566208347

    Hobbs notes plans for an upcoming standardized library to
    be distributed along with (but not in) the core
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=567015633

    Strosberg hits on why you don't want to leave 'puts' calls
    in your Tcl code
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566402699

    JCW notes that the popular Wiki, et al have moved
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566961311

    The ASED Tcl/Tk IDE reaches v0.9.3 after small bug fixes
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=567988957
        http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.sievers/asedhome.htm

    And last, but not least, Fontaine releases v10.1 of moodss,
    the Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet, which uses features of 8.3
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=568302793
        http://jfontain.free.fr/


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/

    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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