Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:36:22 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 22) From: "Richard.Suchenwirth" <richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com 8th Annual Tcl/Tk conference in San Diego, Jul 23-27: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717454226 Thread of the week (most postings) is called "Why Python passed Tcl", but has strayed to many topics from that: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=715988076 Performance of drawing stairsteps on a canvas is discussed in http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718260372 Rumors on MS Outlook Express using Tcl: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718791009 Kevin Kenny shows how a proc can find out its own name: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718247222 and movingly pleas for the readability of expanded regular expressions http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718246824 Koen van Damme walks the Tcl path to simple persistence http://www.linuxmonth.com/issue4/articles/tcl_fileformats/tcl_fileformats.h David Cuthbert proposes Python-style list slice access: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=716303268 For the newbies: an example for custom lsort command http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717949221 Don Porter shows delicate point in scanning dates: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717721401 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/ Volunteers (?) maintain what was formerly the highly organized Scriptics 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/ Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 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.