Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:15:54 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 29) From: "Richard.Suchenwirth" <richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com QOTW is by dlb <semiotics@worldnet.att.net>: For all of the times that TCL has ostensibly 'died' you'd have to assume the TCL is actually 'undead' - it's perpetually wandering the countryside in search of new brains ;) 2nd European Tcl/Tk User Meeting: Hamburg, June 7-8, 2001 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719288130 The Tcl'ers Wiki now has a (still experimental) Tcl'ers Chat: http://mini.net/cgi-bin/chat.cgi Nobody told us, but canvas coordinates can come in a list: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719292524 Peter da Silva extends TIP #22 with APL-like semantics: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719519330 Donal Fellows explains TclObject ref counts: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719256078 and Kevin Kenny gives more details: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=720634625 Daniel Sidobre shows C++ code to manipulate pointers from Tcl: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719148065 The provocative question "Is Tcl dead?" tickles out opinions: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=720022879 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/ Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions." 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.