Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 4)
Cameron Laird
"There's no locale like C." - Richard Suchenwirth
There certainly was a spirited discussion of Tcl's generation;
did it reach conclusions?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/319ae3ee89c81fd8
Many important announcements occurrred during the week, including
assets for OS X and Alexos Stergiakis' explosion of functionality for
tcl-pam, tcl-snmptools, tcl-mmap, and many more:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=package&num=10&scoring=d&hl=en&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl*
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
With the Wiki having gained a new service (see below), let us
start the summary without further ado.
Specific tools
- While we all love Tcl/Tk for its platform-independence, should one
always shy away from things that are _not_ platform-independent?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17742>
- SYLK is one of those "other" spreadsheet programs. But the files
it produces are much easier to manipulate than, say, MS Excel
files. And MS Excel can import them ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21551>
- And the missing pieces for the above can be found in the "Half-Bakery"
a sort of Wiki-like repository, now open for contributions - if
they are suitably under-documented and unfinished, that is:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21550>
Wishful thinking
- The quest for the bounds of what Tcl can do continues: code
and data really become indistinguishable - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21556>
- A simple wish for the canvas: transparancy. This and other topics
at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1415>.
- Tables are definitely the best way to display, well, tabular data.
Here is another megawidget for dealing with such displays. And
do look at the linked site for other goodies. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5286>
- One of the reasons your Wiki chronicler loves maths, is that it can lead
to a sort of music for the eyes. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19671>
- And here is a little application from yours truly. Not much documentation
I am afraid, but it is an inspired one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21580>
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. In the
meantime, an alternative is
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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