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/
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
An alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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