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From: Laurent Duperval <lduperval@videotron.ca>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 19)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:16:03 -0600 (CST)
QOTW:
"They are all strings. That's Tcl." -Pat Thoyts
"With Jeff H as our Bishop we could conquer the world ..." -Acacio Cruz
"Only if I get one of those cool hats!" -Jeff Hobbs
"Thank goodness I've not corrupted the minds of my children with that
_OTHER_ operating system..." -Larry Virden
"I am afraid Tcl is so simple and easy to use that there is no point in
writing one book after the next." -Harald Kirsch
"I would give to be a student again. Find a couple bored friends. Have a
semester long hack fest." -Jeff Hobbs
Subject title of the week: Tcl/Tk 8.4 (CVS tar ball 10 feb 2002) works!
If you want to do password encryption in Tcl, there are a few
alternatives. Check 'em out. Subject: "Password encryption"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=dbfbb3e89b2a68fd
Provide a cool GUI for your command-line program, using Expect.
Subject: "Tcl/Tk/Expect for NT to interact w/Fortran console apps?"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=baca13c359d1f71
Java roolz! Oops, did I just say that? Wait let me... ^H^H^H^H^H
Oh no! My keyboard is broken! Subject: "python vs java (vs tcl?)
benchmarks"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=225b4dbf286956de
Your program can't trusted to remember everything on its own? Then
have it share its memory with others, so the knowledge isn't lost
for all time. ... What? ... That's not what shared memory is all
about? What is it then? ANd how do you Tcl it? Subject: "TclMM -
Tcl shared memory interface"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bb5f37424b374305
Can't shake the C from your blood? You need that struct in your code?
Do it Tcl-style! Subject: "Can structures (like "struct" in C) be
defined in tcl-scripting, or ?"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e09fedb78ddf6615
An annoucement for a new type of parser (EXIF -- what is it anyway?)
eventually leads to a good discussion on a Tcl code repository. Toobad
the second discussion wasn't forked into a new thread. Subject: "EXIF
in Tcl"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b5537decc4d8ef2
Your boss and/or colleagues think Tcl is just playware? Have them
look at this success story. Subject: "Touchy/feely"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=16306934a522b118
It can send shivers up the spine of serious Tcl developers. It's called
"shimmering". What does it do? How does it affect your code? How can
you protect your choldren from it? Subject: "Custom Tcl_Obj, call
frame"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1ada25afa941e3e0
Want to determine when an exec'd process has died? Or, you're
feeling vicious and you want to kill it yourself? Well, learn a bit
about the pitfalls and the solutions. Subject: "process events"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=28c4b901a3e854c0
Subject: "How to detect that an exec'd process has finished"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=43e12fc11c6c4f20
A simple request from a PHB (pointy-haired boss) turns into a debate
on the evils of code documentation. We have all the lurid details.
Subject: "Q: Tcl Call Tree Generator"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f7795bf659b2294e
This come up again and again and again. But each time, it helps
you better understand the Tao of Tcl: what exactly are lists?
Subject: "A list predicate"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f4e7ea937de4191
Yeah, Java so roolz, that we want to add some of its more interesting
constructs to our favourite language. Subject: "try/except in the core"
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=514b7703a85dfbbe
Announcements:
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tclhttpd 3.3.1:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2fae9bea3c635602
tkoutline 0.65:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=qJla8.38938%24s43.13010016%40typhoon.columbus.rr.com
TclSASL 1.0.0:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4dac1f706496741e
Call For Papers: 9th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, Sept 16-20, 2002
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C6C6D00.49D8CA32%40ActiveState.com
TclPro 1.5.0.2 and 1.6.0.1 beta 1
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=710ef7ee0b776448
3rd European Tcl/Tk User Meeting and Call for Papers
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d1c552e792e5edd4
Does this man never stop??!!
moodss-15.8
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C6FB758.B76FF6F4%40free.fr
Fltk 0.3 Bugfix Release 0b1
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C6EE6EC.43E312E4%40videotron.ca
Yeti 0.4
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8e09ccb5a144e30
browser 0.1 package for TkHTML
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1ad1217c53b7c12c
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
ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
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.
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