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Cameron Laird  
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
From: Cameron Laird <tcl-...@phaseit.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:24:18 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Fri, Mar 27 2009 1:24 pm
Subject: Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 27)
QOTW:  "I don't expect users to manage a size_t, and use memcpy correctly.
Most people get that stuff wrong all of the time.  We need a data structure
to make it easier, and functions which manipulate that data structure, so
that u sers don't care in general how it works." - George Peter Staplin

    An exciting (and grammatical) existence proof for a type theory of
    (most of) Tk!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e6b651f20ebf2fa9

    GSoC is a-happening, thanks to Tomasz, Clif, Jeff, ...
        http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=tcl-soc2008
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/39e...

    Recent convert Webb Sprague hopes to represent Tcl publically
    in Portland this approaching almost-solstice.  He invites help:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/2f096cbf4926e8ac

    Alex-who-says-he-rarely-GUIs and Neil give good advice for
    quick generation of a widget that looks like something else,
    but behaves differently:  hack the bindings:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e0c...

    gsfonts-x11 and Tk play together poorly.  Joe English and others
    provide intelligence on Linux packaging, Tk versions, and simple
    readability:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c28...

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Have you noticed the "message-of-the-day" feature on the Wiki yet?
  If not, do read it: information on upcoming events! But now:
  the summary.

  User experience
  - A nice little file selection dialogue: all ready for use with
    themed widgets - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15897>

  - This must be the cutest calculator in the world. No space wasted
    on buttons or anything! <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/23034>

  - Ringtones made easy: startle your cat, using <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22736>

  - An extensive explanation on how to use Tk from the perspective
    of several dynamic languages. Follow the link in
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22898>

  Deep questions
  - Can we interrupt a long running computation, via a "Stop" button
    for instance? This golden oldie asks that question and there
    are a lot of answers: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/564>

  - How do we get input from a user and use it safely? A question
    with many facets, not all of them answered: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9749>

  - A different sort of arrays ... or playing around with sorting
    algorithms - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22791>

  - The sieve of Eratosthenes revisited: this time we bring in the
    power of coroutines - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21446>

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.  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.l...

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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