2005-01-15
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QOTW:  "Nothing's better for uncertainty than an abusive test suite." --
David Gravereaux

"The fact that a program does not segfault is in general not sufficient
evidence for its correctness :)" -- Helmut Giese


POTW:  Tclspice improves on the original Berkeley Spice, first written by the
just-deceased Donald Pederson.
    http://tclspice.sourceforge.net/
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/obituaries/10pedersonobit.html?ex=1106367152&ei=1&en=bfafd477ca3f189e


    Aric Bills and Donal Fellows conscientiously detail subtleties
    of 8.5's new dicts.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2fea82137f97a46f/a5752f775e815b9a

    Are there good books for teaching Tk?
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b1aeb3792df192d1/38c53b41adc63eea

    Negative lookahead ... is a challenge.  Michael, Donald,
    George, Donal, and others tackle a particular manifestation.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3f3bcce88315c17e/233ea49acc547598

    Do Tcl and Expect support other-than-English OSs?  As far
    as we know, they do so better than ANY other language, 
    including Java.  The subject's a gnarly one, though, and
    demands plenty of care, including attention to version-
    specifics.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/df99ee711638ecb1/8cc506daedb296ce
	http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cb0f22182b030afc/65c146b50284801b

    Why would Expect stuff fail under Emacs?  Race conditions
    yield characteristic faults.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a745d78dddb27e6c/544bb5fe54b80e52


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  The new Gregorian year is already more than one week old. So: time 
  to summarize the Wiki
  
  Publicity
  - The French Wiki keeps track of articles and other publications where Tcl 
    is referred - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/4>
  
  - The debate on OO in Tcl is a long one, but if you can read French and are
    at least superficially interested in XOTcl, perhaps this page and its
    companions will interest you: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/774>
  
  - Is it time for a radical change (classicists: yes, that is meant to mean
    by the root!)? This page discusses a "unified programming language"
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13292>
  
  Graphics and games
  - The idea of the LOGO language in a Tcl form: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/766>
  
  - "How to use Tcl/Tk in multimedia applications" discusses just that:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/864>
  
  - Your chronicler did not want to overload this summary with games by
    Mr. David Eaton. So, I will just mention two of them:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13269> lets you create your own computerized
    jigsaw puzzler and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12602> is a memory game ...
  
  To conclude ...
  - What does POSIX have that Tcl doesn't? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13102>
    provides an overview.
  
  - Scrolling can become convoluted at times - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10116>
    for an easy way out
  
  - Need a new control structure? Perhaps for non-deterministic searching 
    through assertions? Here is a fun project that will show you how it
    can be done - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13300>
  

Everything Tcl-related 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

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/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 maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl


    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
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  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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