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From: Laurent Duperval <lduperval@microcelli5.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 30)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:59:35 -0600 (CST)
QOTW: "Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench
to pound in the correct screw!" Anonymous
"Scotty is as 'commercial quality' as it gets." Ashwin Baskaran
"Isn't it amazing what you can get from crufty, cryptic, and inapplicable
Perl code once you translate it to Tcl?" Peter Lewerin
"It appeals to me for the same reasons as perl - I can quickly get
something together that works, then spend some time making it
better/faster/shorter." James Quinby
"I don't have anything against Java - it's the best damn
implementation of UCSD Pascal ever released..." Larry Smith
"I personally see a lot of power in mixing technologies together."
David Gravereaux
"I must admit that I never understood this whole-is-more-than-sum-of-parts
business. In math I learned that '+' can mean a lot of things." Harald Kirsch
"Just think of C++ and it can mean anything." Larry Smith
"I vehemently DON'T think of C++." Arjen Markus
Should all keyboard bindings be identical to Windows CUA bindings?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4f02de877494d8a9
The canvas is cool and powerful. But is it fast enough? Depends on
how many items you plan on inserting in it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f68596bdb000e52a
Human beings have done great things: they've been to the moon, they
cured the world of a lot of diseases. But our brains are still unable
to see character strings for the ASCII codes they really are. "scan"
is the man to the rescue:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b5598675a504e6f6
ActiveState ports Tcl to Itanium.
http://www.ActiveState.com/Initiatives/Tcl
Let's be philosophical: tcl is a nice, powerful language, that gets
the job done. But it ain't sexy, it don't get no press, it don't get
no respect. As such, should it be quietly buried in favour of the
flash and style of, say, Java? Discuss amongst yourselves, children,
while I get a drink {
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=624a55a84d28de63
TIP your hats to the core team. Another TIP has been completed, which
could have an effect on developers using the C API:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8ecace9a616acb28
Mirth and the future (aka Tcl and Delphi):
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a3bd732c0aca4b9
The http module is getting beat up left and right. Follow the blow
by blow right here. In this corner, and still the champion, "package
require http". In that corner, the contender, TclCurl:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3cd1dea10374ab9
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3ef90d110f5a0552
SMTP has been around for a loooooong time. It is behind all those
jokes and all that spam that fills your inbox every day. Tcl
usually simplifies most tasks but seems to have a tougher time
groking SMTP:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a21db7b6fa823218
Do you long for the Good Old Days when 640K was more memory than
anyone could need, a WIMP got beat up at school, Peter Norton was
a god and TSR's were all the rage? Well we ain't going back to
that. But tkMC might bring back memories:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7bdce1ea190359ed
Announcements:
==============
TkCon 2.3:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201241415.16309%40non.non.net
Stooop 4.3
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201251022.25411%40non.non.net
Back To Basics FTP:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201271500.17302%40non.non.net
SnackAmp 1.7.1
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201271637.18321%40non.non.net
TclCurl 0.9.3
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201282110.385%40non.non.net
Whiteboard 0.93:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e750d0a8538588a3
FreeWrap 5.1:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c269e35a227cc004
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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
is a good thing
http://www.tcl-tk.net/scripting/
The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
http://purl.org/mini/tcl/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969
ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
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
Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal. In spring 2001, though,
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date. A fourth possibility is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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