Tcl-URL! for January 22, 2001
Jan 22, 2001

 8th Annual Tcl/Tk conference in San Diego, Jul 23-27: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717454226 

 Thread of the week (most postings) is called "Why Python passed Tcl", but has strayed to many topics from that: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=715988076 

 Performance of drawing stairsteps on a canvas is discussed in 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718260372 

 Rumors on MS Outlook Express using Tcl: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718791009 

 Kevin Kenny shows how a proc can find out its own name: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718247222 

and movingly pleas for the readability of expanded regular expressions 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=718246824 

 Koen van Damme walks the Tcl path to simple persistence 
http://www.linuxmonth.com/issue4/articles/tcl_fileformats/tcl_fileformats.h 

 David Cuthbert proposes Python-style list slice access: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=716303268 

 For the newbies: an example for custom lsort command 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717949221 

 Don Porter shows delicate point in scanning dates: 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=717721401 

 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/ 

 Volunteers (?) maintain what was formerly the highly organized Scriptics 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/ 

 Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity 
http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 
 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/ 
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