Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 17)
Cameron Laird
Fellows
How should a Tcl application integrate a Web server?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fb9211d98dd053e3
YES, Tcom is worthwhile:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2cae90149ca94e6d
Variable scoping? Exception-handling? Read how Tclers think about
typical debugging situations:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d8f249005b6ecc9f
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
The world being the astounding place it is today, we are lucky
to have the Wiki ... Some old pages turning up, some new pages
being added - the Wiki remains a welcome resource.
- Digging into the history of Tcl? This page will be helpful
in providing an overview from the very start -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/1721>
- Let the computer speak up! Not as difficult as it might seem
at first - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6252>
- If Mohammed does not come to the mountain, maybe the other way
around is a solution: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28293> documents
how JavaScript can be used to implement [incr Tcl]
- Comparing the performance of data structures such as dicts versus
arrays requires careful thought and above all: a good
understanding of what is going on. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13826>.
- Existing commands can be persuaded to do things in an unexpectedly
elegant way. Check the end of this page on a feature that Perl
has and Tcl does not (or does it?) - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9617>
- Talking of elegant, here is a little tool to extract those
lines in files that interest you - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/28641>
- Or how about dissecting the HTML code of an Internet page and
visualising the tree structure it actually is?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/25371>
- Of course, you could be interested in completely different things,
say, artificial intelligence and the use of "agents". Well,
check this page: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15200>
- Encrypt and decrypt is the motto of the Blowfish algorithm.
So, at your service: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12985>
- When all else fails, you may have to hunt for a memory leak ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/28634> throws a life line or two.
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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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