Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 10)
Cameron Laird
algorithm, I can always reproduce it without thinking much :D" -- Richard
Suchenwirth
"Life's too short to find new ways of interacting with MS software :/" -- Steve
Landers
POTW: tkpath "implements path drawing modelled after its SVG counterpart".
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/930c670596a1c970/
Is any Tcl work more important to newcomers than David Welton's
tutorial?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/35c4a2cd3e4d1b81/
Tcl luminary Jean-Claude Wippler's "Ratcl is a completely new development
which implements Relational Algebra ... to provide new persistence
solutions for scripting languages. . . . [K]eep in mind that they syntax
... has already evolved ..." beyond what appears in the EuroTcl paper
below.
http://www.equi4.com/docs/tcl2005e/
http://www.vlerq.org/vlerq/250
http://www.vlerq.org/
Arjen Markus provides a numerical algorithmist's perspective on
two-dimensional Tcl arrays.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d2d26a27eff1f3d8/
As most weeks this season, Khaled admirably summarizes a few aspects
of Expect--regular expression matching, in this case.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/73850d2deef81b4d/
The masses have clamored for a MacOS ActiveTcl for years. Now that
it's here, is it a good thing?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b4f3772492e3602d/
Melissa Schrumpf carefully explains how Tcl and awk achieve some of
the same effects with different means.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f43f5c4ec0400468/
Is *** in your RE toolkit? It is for studious Michael Cleverly.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/index/browse_frm/thread/ff315c1c646248f3/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
Games, graphics and profound discussions and thoughts: Let
the summary begin!
Games:
- You can take a prototype and expand it - for the benefit
of your own skills or for the pleasure of improving an
existing game - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14290> to play
"Lotto"
- Want to solve number puzzles? Sudoku can now be played
on an iPaq too - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13272>
- You chronicler is not sure whether this is a game
or something else. The picture looks intriguing though:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/6559>
Graphics and other (technical) stuff:
- OpenGL receives a lot of attention on this page
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/2237> and perhaps you may
want to inspect Tkogl at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14302>
- Automating the use of Open Office via Tcl and tcom:
Read this French page at <http://wfr.tcl.tk/963>
- Just a toy: your humble chronicler had fun with maths
(group theory): <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14285>
- The Fifth EuroTcl meeting had three talks on the
Tile extension - have a look via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10647>
- How useful is aspect-oriented programming in the context
of Tcl? Contribute to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12067> if you like
Parsing (a sort of special):
- For some parsing tasks regular expressions are just not
powerful enough ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4164>
- But perhaps combining parsers can help solve a few
more parsing problems ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14295>
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
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
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
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
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
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http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
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http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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David N. Welton
> Is any Tcl work more important to newcomers than David Welton's
> tutorial?
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/35c4a2cd3e4d1b81/
Thanks for pointing out the tutorial as being an important project to
work on, but it must be said that it's definitely not "David Welton's".
It's based on material from Clif Flynt, and... it's really, "Tcl's
Tutorial" at this point. There are a number of us who could write
something good on our own, but the goal is to get something in CVS that
will be kept up to date and improved by the community over time, much as
the man pages have been. So far, for instance, we've had good
contributions from Neil Madden and Arjen Markus, as well as a typo/style
review yesterday by Robert Steel.
Ciao,
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David N. Welton
- http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
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Donald Arseneau
> Melissa Schrumpf carefully explains how Tcl and awk achieve some of
> the same effects with different means.
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f43f5c4ec0400468/
Melissa Schrumpf also specified
X-No-Archive: yes
so that message will disappear from Google very shortly.
Melissa, is there a reason you don't want advice archived?
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Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca