QOTW:
If I ruled the world, programmers would still use
keypunch machines and IBM System/360's. IMO,
it never got any better than that. John Kelly on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/7e2878165b0a3200
But I wouldn't want to live in two time zones that are 8 hours apart
at once, for more than a week. Reinhard Max, on Tcl2007Conf
POTW:
ANNOUNCE: TclOO v0.1 Released by Donal K. Fellows
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b78fe02b34991b57
I'm very pleased to announce that TclOO version 0.1 is now released.
It's hosted in the Tcl project at SourceForge.
It requires Tcl 8.5b1 to build and operate; see the enclosed README.txt
for details on how to build this TEA-based package. No promises on
whether I'll do a binary package for any platforms as yet.
Details about this package can be found in the Wiki, naturally, at
http://wiki.tcl.tk/TclOO
and any problems should be reported using Tcl's issue trackers at
http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=10894&atid=110894 with
the summary field prefixed by "TclOO:".
Donwload:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894&package_id=247402
[ANNOUNCE] New version of RamDebugger 6.1.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/f2af27176eac8737
A new version of RamDebugger 6.1.2 has been released.
It corrects some small errors in version 6.1.1
RamDebugger is a graphical debugger for the scripting lenguage Tcl-TK.
With RamDebugger, it is possible to make Local Debugging, where the
debugger starts the program to be debugged. and Remote debugging, where
the program to debug is already started and RamDebugger connects to it.
Homepage:
http://www.compassis.com/ramdebugger'
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Tcl for Evil Geniuses
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8ba7b3e2e65dda9e
fully parsed and bytecoded Tcl
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d92c142931a83b1
FORTH accessing Tcl/Tk functionality via DLL in WinXPI
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cba2460a563cd3ba
connection refused
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/71f65c37ae3a581c
and a tcl Bug where [socket] returns an already inuse identifyer.
Mismatched braces in comments
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b5f77a3195db3508
XF vs. Vtcl vs. Tkproe for building screens.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7b1545885c4a7c57
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
tclBlend, events
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/15cd6186cb951377
Linkage errors building tcl-8.4.16 on Windows (VS8)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c37827cee4065364
Cursormask in Tk8.5b1 Linux (Bug?)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/705a12564dfcd48f
ATTC: At the Core:
[TCLCORE] Interpret vs Shallow-compile
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5e9437310710091430h6fec22faw92c5730f1d2cf107%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=tcl-core
Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Surprising things on the Wiki ... well, you'll see
How about ...
- Printing? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19851> leverages a few
packages and creates a canvas that does PDF.
- Round corners? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20109> uses Tile
in a new way to get nice round corners for text widgets.
- Embedding a C compiler? Critcl allows us to embed C code
but still requires a useable C compiler. Here is the
next step: the compiler is part of the whole package
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8494>
About the howto ...
- Did you know you actually put those strange drawings
in the Wingdings font on Windows to some use?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/20107>
- Clustering data is one of those useful, but slightly capricious,
statistical techniques for making sense of loads of data
... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11147>
- And what can we say about data? Data is code is data is code ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17869> uses this dual character to do
some smart things.
About who?
- Conferences are a delightful environment for tossing new
ideas around - though this one touches Tcl at the heart!
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/20114>
- Go all the way: use Tcl for web browsing - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20113>
- Or start a blog - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12061> shows you won't
be the first
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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