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 20) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:56:56 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "I've only just recently started learning tcl and I'm already falling in love with it, no doubt that this incredibly informative board has had something to do with it." Jonathon Epps "Tcl is an astonishing productivity tool, and Wippler's additions put rocket boots on something that is quite capable of stratospheric flight in its own right." Steve Blinkhorn Here's an example: for years, people have threatened to modularize the Tcl core somehow to make significant pieces of it loadable (and also dispensable). Jean-Claude Wippler has suddenly taken action. One of his CriTcl demonstrations moves an eighth of the Tcl core--the regular expressions code--into a separate object. Amazing! http://mini.net/tcl/1204.html morgan mair fheal offers the C source to cascade forks and thus insulate a (grand)child process from the vagaries of its (grand)parent. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f2e297379d9c150c Threading, printing, ... rumble on at their usual modest level of interest and accomplishment. Andreas Kupries' documentation, and David Gravereaux instruction on Windows architecture, has elevated channel coding to new heights, though. http://mini.net/tcl/channel Jens-Achim Kessel describes a fascinating application that involves combustion engines, user customization, realtime databases, GUIs, and more. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5157f2526c33752e This week's Wiki treasures include clocks, statistical functions, graph theory from mazes to NP-completeness, bytecode introspection, and much more. http://mini.net/tcl/4.html 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.