QOTW:
BTW, you can (with varing amounts of work) decompile
C/Java/Perl/Python/Pascal/Fortran/...
--
of course in the case of some of the languages the
decompiled program may be more readable than the
original. Gerald W. Lester on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9afff433eb4b039f
[W]ith Tcl, the cost of trying is often less than the cost of asking.
Steve Landers
POTW:
Announcing Holon, a simple programming system by Wolf Wejgaard
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/5a08b125acf189b6
If you, like me, long for less friction in programming, have a
look at
http://holonforth.com/new/holon.html .
Holon stores the source in a database, handles the program in a
book-like structure of modules, sections and units, and keeps
track of changes.
Announce kbs system update
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/cbed46f2d7ab028a
kbs -- kitgen build system
The system can generate [Tclkit Lite] executables and Tcl packages for
different operating systems.
[Tclkit Lite]: http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/tclkitlite.html
Currently tested are Linux, SunOS, Windows and Irix.
You need a C-compiler and make-program with handling of VPATH
variables (gmake).
To build under Windows you need the [msys] system and put the kbs-
sources
inside the msys tree (/home/..).
[msys]: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894
Homepage, Sources:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/2775672/b6bbac69/tcl.html
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
How Tcl speaks for itself and how Tcl is not spoken for...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1ce8eab8f84822de
How to compile this simple tcltest.c?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/91bbd9cf64aec274
8.5 Windows XP "exec <cmd> &"--mSoft Word and Adobe PDF hang (not Firefox)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d579f1ecb2aaad81
Optimizing channel lookups
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/7be0ffc8d3fa73cb
tclkit question
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/9b18f6d71da63cf1
0.7.8 ttk::treeview missing -xscrollcommand option?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/573324c10d751473
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
tcltest binary ?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/ebbdb4e1dc08b6e4
Tnm MIB load
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/bbee76b5d43223a7
PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
SQLite in the News
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2107239,00.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/12abc58dc42b233c
Interview with Richard Hipp in The Guardian.
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly reports on the Wikis:
Wiki gnoming has an interesting side effect: the gnomes
dig up pages that we have all but forgotten - see below
for a few examples!
New and wonderful
- Weather is a fascinating thing - at least in parts of the
world where it is so chaotic. So, this page on retrieving
METAR data is for all you weather lovers:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19635>
- Can programming become simpler? Well, this is yet an
other approach to help us programmers ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19639>
- Maps are fascinating things too. And with the right data
at your disposal and a powerful tool like Tk, the sky
is the limit: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19618>
- Perhaps not so wonderful, but there is a touch of heroism in
pointless computing jobs: the stubbornness, the fixation
on a futile job done well ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19630>
Old and wonderful
- Secure shells are the standard tool to log on to a different
Linux/UNIX machine nowadays. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1193>
shows how to open a connection and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11542>
shows how to leverage the power of Tcl on another machine.
- Only use fancy, big and difficult drawing tools when you
can not write your own! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11198> shows
you can get a long way with just a few lines of Tcl/Tk.
- And if you do not have a large screen, but instead only
a tiny machine running eTcl, nothing stops you from
leafing through the UNICODE tables - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15305>
- Suppose you want to see what is going on at the level of
a pixel, Tcl/Tk together with Img will help you magnify
the screen's content: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9404>
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
"La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159
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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