Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 30)
Cameron Laird
"... do not write things that look like Ivy League faculty memos." -- Joel
on dialogues
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html
POTW: Testing is crucial to success. Good datasources are crucial to
testing. GPSFeed is an interesting model for management of a connection
to components in the real world.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/gpsfeed
Donald Arsenau knows how to use [regexp]'s -inline.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dc6a4a5734584acc/
Is there a way to take pieces out of one Starkit and put them
in another? Sure:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d7d6a437a824b908/
http://wiki.tcl.tk/sdx
Brian Griffin has good advice for those embarking on investigation
of who is doing what in Tk bindings.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c83c400f60a8eb96/
Andreas Leitgeb doesn't let tclsh's refusal to recognize "-c" stop
his use of the executable as a gnumake shell.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5c1850ced3860454/
Present a paper at the Tcl/Tk 2005 Conference.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6910322&forum_id=6718
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
Objectively speaking, we had a surge of object-oriented pages last week.
While mentioning the subject is often enough for heated debates, your
Wiki chronicler remains stoic about it ...
Much ado about object-orientation
- What is required of Tcl to support OO? Answers and further questions
on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1210>
- A nice concept from functional programming makes it to Tcl via one
of Tcl's pet OO mechanisms - monads on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13844>
- Not only monads but complex numbers too in TOOT:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13885>
Much ado about wrapping
- Well, there you are: you have this command-line program and
now you want to use Tcl/Tk to ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4798>
for all your questions.
- Not only command-line programs, what about ... The Gimp?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/11232> makes a comeback
- Not only programs on the _same_ machine, what about a
script somewhere else? RPC in TCL - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13886>
- The penultimate wrapping: zip-files as kit-files -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13876>
Yet another language comparison
- We have seen the "Language shootout" on the comp.lang.tcl
newsgroup, we also have PLEAC: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2113>
describes the original book, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5994>
points to Tcl examples
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
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
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