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. 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.