From:	 "Glenn Jackman" <glennj@nortelnetworks.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 26)
Date:	 Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:30:06 -0500 (CDT)

Quotes of the week:
    One of the greatest advantages of Tcl is that it is so cunningly simple.
    Of course, that does seem to trip up a lot of new users that aren't use
    to a language handling so much for you.  To be most effective with Tcl,
    it is important to understand that this language is your friend" 
    -- Jeff Hobbs,
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a81ece1edc5d0726,5&seekm=3B2FA1D3.F596B878%40ActiveState.com#p

    TCL is the slightly rounding married guy taking care of the kids,
    being a great husband, civic leader, and still getting all the work
    done on time and under budget.
    -- "leam", in a quote that hits amusingly close to home for many...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&ic=1&th=a81ece1edc5d0726,5&seekm=3B2FA1D3.F596B878%40ActiveState.com#p

    And for the Star Trek fans out there...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=62d53dbb9f3ebba1,60&seekm=3b30fc91%240%2414440%248e9e3842%40news.atx.net#p


Discussions:
    Testimonial on productivity of working with Tcl:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&ic=1&th=f46bf786fd276a19,11&seekm=cznvglp21c0.fsf%40baskaran-u60.cisco.com#p

    Just what is this "i18n" thing anyway? 
        http://mini.net/tcl/i18nWritingForTheWorld

    What did I just [catch]?
        http://mini.net/tcl/exec

    Call to arms for self-testing Tcl scripts.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=39c447de7e947823,7

    [auto_import] discussion leads to packaging viewpoints.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f85d34305bb31fb5,12&seekm=9gqvm1%247se%241%40bob.news.rcn.net#p
        http://mini.net/tcl/package


Outside the world of comp.lang.tcl:
    The IBM WebSphere Control Program is an example of a complex tool
    implemented completely in TCL.
        http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v35/ae/infocenter/was/atswcpov.html


Announcing new software:

    Animated Gif package for Tcl, implemented in Tcl.
        http://cardtable.sourceforge.net/tcltk/

    ITCLPYTHON 1.0 -- host python interpreters from Tcl.
        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13244&release_id=39973

    Latest release of tkcon, the popular GUI console for Tcl/Tk.
        http://tkcon.sourceforge.net/

    Incremental release of TLS, a portable extension that provides the power
    of SSL to Tcl programs.
        http://tls.sourceforge.net/
        http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm
        http://www.sensus.org/tcl/tls.htm (documentation)

    Latest release of TclSOAP.
        http://tclsoap.sourceforge.net/


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/

    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://mini.net/tcl/969.html

    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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