From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 18) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:22:30 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "Needless to say with all of 2 weeks Tcl/Tk experience under my belt I love it and am also amazed at how few people 'on the street' seem to have heard of it. It is by far the easiest programming language I have tried to use, and the most powerful for small applications." Larry Gagnon "In any case, I have to say, Tcl/Tk and its user community (especially the commun ity) is AMAZING and I LOVE IT ;D" unnamed chat-ter "Tcl is simple and straightforward, thinking that way is sometimes hard." Bruce Hartweg Different fonts in a label? Kind of... http://groups.google.com/groups?th=763c3dbe3dff050d expr trickery http://groups.google.com/groups?th=daffc990469e9bb4 Tcl's first Usenet posts http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1008179781.255132%40irys.nyx.net Is info vars specified correctly? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=21efe3ef7e731427 Weekly regexp discussion (optomization) http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f797c21b9acdfee5 Be careful what you catch http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a91f1440c114350e Thread-safe extensions http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=87heqt88wk.fsf%40bluepeak.home Reference counting tip http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bb19d5d5.0112150634.135e6319%40posting.google.com Announcements ------------- Real-time 3D Graphics for Tcl/Tk http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200112121025.1346%40non.non.net Tk vu widget set 2.1.0 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200112121038.1517%40non.non.net TSIPP Workbench version 1.5a Released http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=f23816ca.0112121159.3d4d3d1%40posting.google.com telnet client http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9vfhb4%24a1e%241%40srv38.cas.org SMC - State Machine Compiler v. 1.1.0 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C1B65FB.17805497%40acm.org 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.