Tcl-URL! for January 29, 2001

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:16:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Richard Suchenwirth richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 29)

QOTW is by dlb (semiotics@worldnet.att.net):
For all of the times that TCL has ostensibly 'died' you'd have to assume the TCL is actually 'undead' - it's perpetually wandering the countryside in search of new brains ;)

2nd European Tcl/Tk User Meeting: Hamburg, June 7-8, 2001
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719288130

The Tcl'ers Wiki now has a (still experimental) Tcl'ers Chat:
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/chat.cgi

Nobody told us, but canvas coordinates can come in a list:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719292524

Peter da Silva extends TIP #22 with APL-like semantics:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719519330

Donal Fellows explains TclObject ref counts:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719256078
and Kevin Kenny gives more details:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=720634625

Daniel Sidobre shows C++ code to manipulate pointers from Tcl:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=719148065

The provocative question "Is Tcl dead?" tickles out opinions:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=720022879

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html

Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions."
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/

Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity
http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/

NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/

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http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
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http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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