QOTW:
LiP: Who is the core maintainer of the clock command?
DKF: Kevin Kenny is the time-lord.
AHo: And quite a dashing time-lord at that,
if his Frappr photo's anything to go by.
LSm: Really? I'd like to see his Tardis sometime.
POTW: TclPerl : Version 3.2 announced by Jean-Luc Fontaine
TclPerl and TclPython are two Tcl/Tk extension (written in C) that allow
the execution of Perl/Python code from Tcl. Thus they are posterchildren
for the glue-all ability of tcl.
http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl.htm
http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/48837b1661274655
binaries may be found here:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=43
Sixth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting - Invitation and Call for papers.
The short timeframe should be kept in mind (but should not keep away)
by contributors: 1. May, abstracts if possible before 31. March.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/fc86c7b4d8e5bd0d
http://wiki.tcl.tk/13567
A number of Checksum-Methods are provided by tcllib. This includes crc16,
crc32, modem and crc-ccitt:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/b8a0a7531a1e5027
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2259
Unnoticed by most users the checkbutton has grown another bud in the form
of a "tristate" state. It was TIPed (TIP110), implemented and all that
jazz but there are some eyebrows in disarray on how and why to use ;-/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/90f82e34fc2e0469
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/110.html
Talk to your browser and he might actually tell you what currently holds
his attention. Acessing currently displayed URLs on Windows through the
dde and tcom extensions.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/f3a47f51edd00180
Portrait photography for my App. How to do and where to find. Helmut
Giese bootstraps himself:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/9ad59badb3122b29
and the bootstrap is here:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/9127
When asking for Otcl c.l.t. regulars will probably try to sell you an
"'X' as well. Otcl has found a haven at sourceforge:
http://otcl-tclcl.sourceforge.net/otcl/
While its sibbling XOtcl is developed at Universitaet Wien:
http://www.xotcl.org/ ( redirect to http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/index.html )
To write or Not, to wrap?, that is the question put by Kevin Walzer.
Not about the Prince of Denmark but concerning a tcl-extension
for OSX to access functionality as provided by
http://osxutils.sourceforge.net/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/2ff92bb6874738db/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
Spring is in the meteorological air ... so time for
another summary.
The cameleontic way
- Incr Tcl masquerading as Snit or is it XOTcl?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/14460> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14773>
both experiment with delegation.
- Musings on the things we call languages - be they
natural or object-oriented ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15488>
- Perhaps restricting yourself to a particular domain of
problem solving will help? Tcl seems quite adequate
for the job - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15542>
- egg or chicken, dissertation or data; testing data for normality
(whether they are normally distributed or not) is often needed in
statistics. An implementation of a normality test, called the
Lilliefors test. It is based on the famous Kolmogorov-Smirnov-Test.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/15540>
The human way
- Two Tcl gatherings announced: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15537>
and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13567>
- Programs are notoriously difficult to read, aren't they?
Perhaps Donald Knuth's "literate programming" can finally
provide a breakthrough by applying it to wikis?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/8411>
- Hoffmanns Erzaehlungen: Matthias Hoffmann has something to
tell on the wiki and would like to talk about it.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/2?Matthias+Hoffmann>
The graphic way
- A single picture says more than a thousand words. So
it is said ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15549> shows the
shadow side ... (okay, just run the script ;))
- If a flat picture can say a lot, what if it has
depth? Hm, this toolkit might be useful in certain
domains ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15551>
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
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
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
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
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
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
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http://www.ddj.com/topic/tcl/
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