Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 7)
Cameron Laird
Markus, showing the cross-cultural awareness typical of top Tcl practitioners
"Not all bugs are susceptible to easy automated hunting" - Donal K. Fellows,
in yet another corollary of the Halting Theorem
TDBC continues its advance:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6230aa451c497d5f/
While messageBox seems to have at least a couple of long-standing
difficulties, their resolution isn't at hand yet:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f9a4c5993194e593/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
Let me first wish you all a happy new year - may the Wiki and Tcl
in general prosper at least as well as in 2008!
Concerning Tcl
- Work on the new version of Itcl is well on its way with a beta
version last year. If you are curious about Itk, then do read
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/22167>.
- We all know that Tcl keeps its values in Tcl_Objs, right?
And that is all on the C side of things. Up to now! "scrobj"
makes it possible to go full circle and access the Tcl_Objs
from the Tcl side. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22175>
- Growing concern over te apparent trend to use Tcl as "merely"
a prototyping tool. Is Puppy Linux an example of such a trend?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/11951>
- Keep them coming, those references to Tcl articles. The more
the better! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1016>
Concerning graphics
- Yet another wonderful demo from the 3D side of graphics:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
- One place to go if you want to learn about designing
user-interface (with Tcl/Tk) - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14074>
Views on programming
- Want to make several processes (programs) work together?
Then you will need some form of inter-process communication ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/1228> concentrates all the wisdom.
(And your chronicler found a page there he had completely forgotten)
- The Model-View-Controller paradigm in a very practical setting.
See it demonstrated in this hydrological application:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/22164>
- Or perhaps you are more charmed by context-oriented programming?
Well, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22161> illustrates that!
- Of course, we can not do without frameworks. Here is one by
your truly ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22159>
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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