QOTW: "Functional languages tend to be monolithic monstrosities." - Donal
K. Fellows, caught in an unguarded moment
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Probably your chronicler's bias, but there seems to be a lot
of interest in communication between processes - if the Wiki
is any reliable measure. Well, let's see ...
What's in a name
- Anyone else with a good name for the one new syntactical
element in Tcl 8.5? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19707> discusses
various possibilities to call {*} ... uh, something.
- If you have some Latin homework, that is, translate Latin
text to English, check this out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20997>
Tools for your kit
- Convert an XML file into a PostScript file for printing ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/2741>
- An arms' race in compression algorithms. Can anyone beat
Lempel-Ziv-Markov? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12749>
- Multiple ways to protect your source code - for various
reasons: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3698> lists a new kid on the
block - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21001>.
- Creating a stardll instead of a starkit - embedded Tcl
made even easier: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15969>
Talking back and forth
- What methods do we have to let programs communicate
amongst each other? A lot as shown by <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1228>
- A very old (in terms of computerspeak) method can be found
here: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4885>
- But nowadays you can simply start a lot of the same processes
on different machines by a single incantation: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14734>
- Or set the parameters for a TCP connection: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14722>
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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