Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 12)
From: Cameron Laird
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:01:39 +0000
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QOTW:  "I employ Wishful Thinking as design methodology... and it's
surprisingly successful with Tcl." -- Richard Suchenwirth

"I look forward to the day when compiling is as rare as assembling." -- willdye,
who further explained that he writes of "'compiling' as a manual 20-minute task
several times a day (like right now).  If it's an automatic optimization like
gcc invoking the assembler, it's not what I meant by 'compiling'."


POTW:  Muse entertains.
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/muse


    Apple Corporation may have plans to move away from PowerPC, but
    ActiveTcl is newly available for AIX.
        http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActiveTcl/

    Jonathan Ellis and others explain use of tclpython.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/53e2af807344a034/

    Eckhard Lehmann has prepared a portable TEA plplotter extension.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/af7e836839fddc48/

    Rich Wurth and Jeff Hobbs provide sound counsel on memory problems.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9846948b412d396b/

    editline?  eltclsh?  readline?  tclguy explains his view that
    "eltclsh is where you want to start ..."
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e66812db08b675d1/

    Tkinter users will want to know about a drag-and-drop wrapper.
        http://www.8ung.at/klappnase/TkinterDnD/TkinterDnD.html   

    Donald Arsenau and others clarify vwait semantics.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b5e6812ec3e5b49c/

    Remember:  a [text] can tell you if its contents have changed.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1d6e930be414709b


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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