Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 20)
Cameron Laird
furniture." - Donal K. Fellows, on a newly fashionable non-Tcl
language,
or perhaps on ADTs more generally
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/5368a1e92053302a
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
The Wiki is rapidly approaching the 25000th page, by the looks of
it.
Does anyone want to guess whether we will reach it before 2010?
Anyhow, the pages that are already there are quite interesting in
themselves ...
Technical bits
- Need to identify/guess the type of a file? fumagic is a Tcl-only
tool to do so and tmag is a compiled extension.
See: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17368>
- Use the make utility to automate any kind of build process - for
instance the building of a starkit/starpack.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19813>
- Creating an extension with C++ is much less daunting if you use
the right tool ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24697> for the curious.
- Documentation on one incompatibility in Tcl 8.5.8: the mp_digit
type as used in Tcl's internal code. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24693>
Fun bits
- Wibble is a minimal web server, not as minimal as some, but it
can do more than you might expect. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23626>
- Have you ever tried to investigate the accuracy of timed events?
Here is a fun little script that gives an indication:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/24717>
- Reading an electronic business card ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20822>
- "puredata" is the inconspicuous name of a programming environment
dealing with audio, video and graphical data.
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21384>
Experimental bits
- What will Tcl 9 change with respect to variables, procedures
and the like? Here is a little experiment to find out how
the ideas in Tcl 9 might work out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24695>
- Coroutines are good for almost anything. Here is an experiment
that deals with channels and coroutines - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/
24699>
- Functional programming is a wonderful technique and while
functional
languages may be better equipped to apply it, it is not at all
beyond Tcl's capabilities either: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3146>
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/
Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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. Dave
Williams generously is building up
http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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Cameron Laird
"La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.