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From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun  6)
Date: 6 Jun 2000 06:59:45 -0500

    What's in a name? Ask "Ajuba", formerly known as 
    Scriptics. Comments, concerns, and rationale
    abounds:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625731613
     and
        http://www.ajubasolutions.com
        
    Bubble, bubble, toil and... umm, sort? An implementation
    of a bubble sort in Tcl, with some curiosities on ways
    to improve it (or ecexution speed in general):
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625817031
        
    Frederic Bonnet announces a new "Dictionary" object
    for Tcl, described as a byhrid between arrays and lists
    which preserves the internal has table, improving performance.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626306323
      Download the source at:
        http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/pub/dictionary.tar.gz

    Will Duquette announces version 2 of a Tcl-based macro expansion
    tool. (No, it's not for writing VBS-based viruses..)
        http://www.wjduquette.com/expand

    What you need to do HTTPS with Tcl, from a couple different
    angles:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=627522952
        
    Jean-Luc Fontaine announces both BLT2.4 RPMs for RedHat and
    a new version of moodss (which requires BLT):
       BLT RPMs:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.spec
       Moodss:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3.tar.gz
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.spec


    How will it all be resolved? Thoughts on namespace resolution
    when Itcl is involved:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626596607
        
    Andreas Otto announces an update to his commercial Tcl compiler:
        http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/comp-main_E.html
        
    Frederic Bonnet announces version 2.0 of a Tcl exception and
    error
    handling package:
        http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TclExcept/index.htm
        
    What starts out as a simple question on dynamic variable names
    (var$1 through var$n) becomes an analysis on the possible methods
    and pitfalls of getting and setting those types of values:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626733858
        
    Break out your secret Base64 encoder/decoder rings, Tcl-cadets:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626766895

    George Staplin announces a new version of Aged, a Tcl/Tk
    programming editor:
        http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/aged/
        
    Harald Kirsch announces bras 0.99.5, a rule-based command tool
    somewhat similar to 'make':
        http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/

    There's something to be said for being willing to share...
    memory, that is. A pointer to accessing shared memory through
    Tcl:
        http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/tcl-faq/part5.html

    What kind of state is your extension in? Well, ask it! Queries on
    maintaining states with your extensions, and what API functions
    to link to to ensure it works:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=628773035

    Is it wrong to be conservative? Some folks are wondering about
    the default CFLAGS used when compiling Tcl:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629101529
        
    Carsten's looking for other interested folks to discuss building
    real games in Tcl, and what kinds of widgets or interfaces to
    other APIs would help those type of efforts. Lots of neat pointers
    in this thread, especially to other packages compatible with Tcl:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629128641

    A few proposals on new clock commands for ISO formatting and
    other such fun things:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629369199

    Johannes Zellner announces Entity 0.6, an XML application
    framework:
        http://entity.evilplan.org/

    Jeff announces an update to the tclbench CVS collection, now with
    179 benchmarking tests and new command line options:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629711956

    Don Porter announces package 0.0, a drop-in replacement for
    'package' containing lots of the enhancements discussed in c.l.t.
    over the past few months:
        http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/tcltk/package/
        
    The European User Meeting final schedule has been posted, and
    is available at:
        http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk

    Jim Ingham, now a resident of Steve Jobs-land, provides some
    neat information on Tcl and compatibility with MacOS-X:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=630305722
    

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://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://dev.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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