Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 2)
Cameron Laird
"Rewriting a GUI mainloop is both boring and useless once you have wish in
hand." - Alexandre Ferrieux
"Thyrd is an experimental, reflective, visual programming language and
environment ... It most resembles Joy." Thyrd is implemented in Tcl/Tk.
In Thyrd, EIAS.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9302a5fdb754076a/
Progress in binary formatting:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6496408a894d7767/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
With december threatening to be colder in these parts of the world
than we have grown used to, let us not linger too much!
Interfacing
- Do you know the problem? Websites that require a password
and you who can't keep track of them? Maybe this tool
will help: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22012>
- Let Tcl help you find your way in a MS Excel spreadsheet:
this simple script shows some of the basics -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21291>
- Impressive frames and animations generated by having
Tcl drive the procedure: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16879>
- And why not write a little extension to a C++ library
that handles Bayesian networks? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19881>
Graphics
- Here is the latest 3D demo again: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
- While it may be unfortunate that "Puppy Linux" no longer
uses Tcl/Tk for its tools, it does not mean you can not
use Tcl on it: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11951>
Bag of tricks
- Creating temporary files will be easier in Tcl 8.6:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/772>
- Always fascinating to see specialised data structures
implemented in Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22018>
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.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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friends. They definitely have humor there.)
Cameron Laird
<bill...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>Where's the QOTW from? There's no reference. (I have Icelandic
>friends. They definitely have humor there.)
There was an intercontinental match on the Chat last week at an odd
hour, and Steve Landers found that particular emission memorable.
Personally, I'm fine with the Icelandic humor I've known. stu
inspires much ... discussion.