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From: Stuart Cassoff <stwo@sympatico.ca>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Apr 3)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:13:11 -0600 (CST)
Headlines for 2002/04/01:
John Osterhout apologizes for Tcl:
"I was just kidding! I never thought the joke would go this far.
Sorry for wasting everyone's time. I recommend switching to VBScript."
Jeff Hobbs quits Tcl, moves to Perl.
In a very excited mood about this change, he was overheard to have said:
"/%^&$/ =~-- |/-\ $_ ><O_) !"
Andreas Otto successfully sues Microsoft for stealing .Net from "Compiler":
"Finally, 'justice' has been 'served' '.'", said Andreas.
Rumours abound that Andreas will use this money to build a "laser".
Cameron Laird stops giving friendly advice:
"Let them find their own damn wiki pages!"
said the exasperated Mr. Laird.
Richard Suchenwirth, on five days holiday, writes an entire OS in Tcl.
New uses for Unicode: Multilingual curse word translator released.
Big changes to speedup the core:
"Everything is a string" becomes "Everything is a char".
QOTW: "No matter what you hear, you *can't* buy this kind of service, and
dedication, and willingness to help - anywhere, for any price. This is what
tcl and the tcl community are all about and I'm proud to be a (very small)
part of it." Jeff Godfrey
"[S]imple, but took me hours to get there." Richard Suchenwirth on one
of his Wiki jewels
"I'm not afraid of anything, if everything is a string" -- Richard Suchenwirth
Jeff's massively improved TclX packaging--TEAttitude, stubsiness,
and so on.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=731c89f778cd46e
Jeff asks for participation in a survey.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=86a17a43053257dc
Let's admit it: exec's syntax involves subtleties.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e3157901276c765f
Yes, Tcl has good help systems.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f9bfa351e227d5b
DLL and package loading are, as so often, slightly mysterious.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fb3a787c4f8b175f
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=172418189b2e3d11
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fe3ee0051e9f3763
David Gravereaux, Andreas Kupries, and Zoran Vasiljevic present
a tutorial on events and threading.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9735d0a6593c5e17
Commands that cannot be renamed/deleted? / Safe interps
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=242b543e302fb736
Switching on a variable
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=60527c0a6a6f5106
Countdown to a date/time? Not as easy as it sounds.
Solutions come forth, of course!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9d0f3ec083e660fe
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=585c5194e341c065
Older versions of Tcl, embedding, and a bit of history.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9fd7752006d29b2f
Tuba, Tkcon and debugging methods.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40653597bd2fd3f0
The helpfulness of c.l.t.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d842a4c3718a367c
Tcl shining star of the week: Kevin Kenny
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=ual1i6h2ibgk46%40corp.supernews.com
Evil eval
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e3157901276c765f
Namespace and performance
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=29d8aa61e28d2fd5
Polygon drawing/rotating from Richard Suchenwirth
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6a63ffee75ce0f12
3D from Richard Suchenwirth
http://groups.google.com/groups?&th=20270915fea725a3
tgdb: a debugger for Tcl
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d454fc66bbf425a
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://wiki.tcl.tk/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
http://wiki.tcl.tk/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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