QOTW: "Tcl is most often just formalized common sense." - Richard
Suchenwirth
"[I]t's always shocking how simple [it] can be to do these little things
with Tcl." - antirez
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
While the Google summer of code is receiving quite a bit of attention,
the world or, more correctly, your chronicler's part of it is beaten
by an unseasonal storm...
Stuff from Tcllib
- Parsing expression grammars is now explained in small steps at
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/15512>
- As events add a lot of power to Tcl/Tk, ever wondered what events
are available? Or how you can make your own? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/489>
has been around for a long while - check it out again.
Stuff to think about
- Ever wanted to change the syntax of Tcl? Well, if not, here are
a bunch of ideas ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/508>
- And when you are done with that page, you may want "constants" too
- or enumerations - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1308>
- Old ideas reused: the Eliza program has been around for a long time
and in a graphical environment it looks ever so nice:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/9248>
Stuff to use
- Uploading dozens of files in dozens of directories via FTP?
Sure thing: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15002>
- The French Wiki features a 3D graphical widget, available
via the lightweight version of Tcl: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1523>
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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