From:	 kennykb@acm.org (Kevin Kenny)
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 21)
Date:	 Mon, 21 May 2001 09:22:08 -0500 (CDT)

Quotes of the week are in abundance.  Richard Suchenwirth leads off with:
"I know Tcl for some years now, but I'm still amazed what all we can do
with arrays, so that I'm almost tempted to say: 'Tcl is a database with
a powerful scripting language' ;-)"
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=998c3fedd686b4a6
Tony Summerfelt confesses that "working with sockets in tcl is so easy you
think you're missing something..."
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e982ad1176f2cc50
Finally, experienced programmer Salvador Peralta relates in private
correspondence (reproduced with permission) his first impression of Tcl:
"I'm not sure who said that you don't have to be at your sharpest to code
in Tcl and Tk, but it is really true.  I spent probably 9 hours coding in
Java and Perl today and am definitely not at my best right now.   I
rather enjoy programming in both languages, but even so, the simplicity
of Tcl is a joy by comparison to either.  "
    
    Gordon Johnstone recovers a tutorial on how regular expressions
    have changed in Tcl 8.1 and beyond, and puts it on the Web.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=818a5856bcad7e24
    
    Richard Suchenwirth, in another one of his wonderful "weekend
    projects", introduces "A simple database" written in pure Tcl.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1598
    
    The discussion of Richard's little gem leads several experienced
    Tcl'ers off into musings about "lazy evaluation" and other
    functional-programming topics.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=998c3fedd686b4a6
    
    Donal Fellows and others share their thoughts about a unified
    database interface:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/653
    
    Curious about how Tcl performance has varied over the years?
    How much it costs to support Unicode?  Jeff Hobbs posts results of
    the full Tcl benchmark suite, against 7.6p2, 8.0.5, 8.2.3, 8.3.1,
    and 8.4a3:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1611
    
    Macintosh binaries of Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 are now available:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3cdbe14357c2ff01
    
    AOLServer 3.4 has been released.  AOLserver is a multithreaded,
    Tcl-enabled web server used for large scale, dynamic web sites.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7f9dff5b10bbbdd9
    
    The SpecTcl GUI builder has found a maintainer again (Morten Skaarup
    Jensen), who has released version 1.2a2:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=134091ec18c7c590
        http://spectcl.sourceforge.net
    
    Csaba Nemethi announces release 1.3 of the multi-column listbox
    package, TableList:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=fc70289e10d083d0
        http://www.nemethi.de


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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.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
--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://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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