From: "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 14) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:51:00 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "I am just learning Tcl/Tk and my first impression is 'where has this been all my life.'" Jim Melton "'Java program' and 'easy to install' just don't go together in the same sentence without a 'NOT' somewhere in there." Joe English CriTcl could be important, or it could be *very* important. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=35b2d64cec7aa4be http://mini.net/tcl/critcl Many authors contribute code to simulate an LED display http://mini.net/tcl/LED traverse directory contents http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d66da708039dcca3 and format binary representations http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e57c36bda951c3da Richard Suchenwirth's latest jewel is a simple demonstration of Tcl's ability in graph theory. http://mini.net/tcl/2473.html Several programmers correct a bogon in Brent's book concerning asynchronous networking. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7ae1e7e4ca9c074d Tcl/Tk makes for commercial-grade standards-oriented software. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xmi/?n-x-1111 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 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.