04/18/2007
QOTW:
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you
feed him for a lifetime. That said, we're surely willing to help.
Chinese Proverb quoted by Kevin Kenny on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/1f0304ba5c1d912b
"plans don't matter; progress does; watch for that" D. G. Porter,
largely in regard to 8.5
POTW:
ANNOUNCE: TclTalk 0.3.6.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/931d49f6c182e671
So, weeks after the release of version 0.3.6 I found a bug
when trying to save a new file, making it impossible.
Get the new kit from the download page of the TclTalk wiki at::
Homepage:
http://tcltalk.ath.cx/wiki
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Advice summing list
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/9becba6e698c779
The good, the bad, the ugly but fast.
LDAP troubles
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/3110d4b1c449ef7b
Why, why why... everytime I move to a new pc tclapp fails to work??
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/2c2e4e61421722fd
Gone through the window...
Slave interpreters, aliases, and upvar
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/74d0f22aba61286
Safe at any speed, why upvar can not AND should not be able to
reach into the parent interp.
C++/TCL Need Solution to Compile Error c2784
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/27112802c8dfc6eb
Why Tcl/Tk does not have a 64-bit distribution?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/41cd785168eeb1bd
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Looking for tile-themes
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/5820a0c9c86bfa86
newbie snodbc
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1a1beab8bd222dc7
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 (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
We're working on more useful archives of past installments. In the
meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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