Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:48:52 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 21) From: "Hall, Leam" <LHall@rosenbluth.com> Did you know Tcl has it's own collaboratively-edited community web site? Daily updates and new ideas at: http://purl.org/tcl/wiki For example, Richard Suchenwirth gives a programmers view of why Tcl is a superior scripting language. http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/540.html Do you like tuning code performance? Bob Techentin talks about file reads, ... http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=658907252 Kevin Kenny identifies faster ways to deal with exceptions, http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659124495 And of course, you can find lots of tips and ideas at: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TclPerformance http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TkPerformance For the Newbies: Daniel Glasser and Cameron Laird tag team to explain "exec" and "eval" issues. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659744424 Then Daniel goes on to gives some Windows pointers on writing to and reading from text files. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659731601 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/ 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, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.