Tcl-URL! for August 21, 2000
Aug 21, 2000

 Did you know Tcl has it's own collaboratively-edited community web site? Daily updates and new ideas at: 
http://purl.org/tcl/wiki 

 For example, Richard Suchenwirth gives a programmers view of why Tcl is a superior scripting language. 
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/540.html 

 Do you like tuning code performance? Bob Techentin talks about file reads, ... 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=658907252 

 Kevin Kenny identifies faster ways to deal with exceptions, 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659124495 

 And of course, you can find lots of tips and ideas at: 
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TclPerformance 
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TkPerformance 

 For the Newbies: Daniel Glasser and Cameron Laird tag team to explain "exec" and "eval" issues. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659744424 

 Then Daniel goes on to gives some Windows pointers on writing to and reading from text files. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659731601 

 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.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html 
 Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher 
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/ 
 Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center 
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/ 
 They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing 
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/ 
 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 
 Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts 
http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ 
 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: 
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html 
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