From:	 Arjen Markus <Arjen.Markus@wldelft.nl>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 29)
Date:	 Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:04 -0600 (CST)

QOTWs:  "He couldn't believe how few lines it took to create a
functional toolbar. I think I made a Tcl convert."  Tony Summerfelt

"Tcl is far more algebraic in nature than aby other language I can
think of except Lisp, in the general sense of 'algebra' as opposed
to the class you took in 9th grade." Les Cargill

    Two threads for the price of one: binary floating-point numbers and
    decimal representation tend to cause confusion.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e7ee4d6305bc6d7

    The magic of "exec" eats those triangular brackets, but can we
    escape from this?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7710ddec4877dd1e

    Is IBM's tutorial any good? It may get other people started to
    think about Tcl anyway. And feedback seems to be welcomed!
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e202de9938b38edb

    A program-launcher (toolbar) is where many Tk beginners begin.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fef2ae55d1ab2e93

    Expert trainer Ken Jones explains the implementation of WIMP
    bindings.
       http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c25fc6a0f5e77e88

    Those window managers! Do we have any information about them from
    within Tk? Too little it seems.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bf867d787e0b395b

    The new/old version of Tcl, 8.3.4, causes a few problems of its own.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7294a05edc9f9d94

    Should Tcl's open be open to the rest of the world as well to files
    on disk?  Please let it recognise URI/URL/URN's!  New VFS
    capabilities answer, "Yes".
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=91a966ea8ae94115

    But then, if Tcl's file commands can not handle a simple string
    like "c:test", what is the point? The whole confounded business
    of DOS file names being utterly strange, of course. And then they
    add a space by default just to make life for a simple programmer
    even trickier.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=96d270d8c70e8a04

    Are journalists open to Tcl's virtues?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=66f0f6c9f4bf0073


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

    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  

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