Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:57:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: “Hall, Leam” LHall@rosenbluth.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Aug
6)
Karl Lehenbauer sums up the window of opportunity in the
“Quote of the Week”:
We’re out on the track, we’re running good and the green flag is
out. The language is going into the hands of an eager core team.
Now is the time to STEP ON THE GAS. Do stuff to make it easier to
build, release, obtain and run Tcl and extensions on every
interesting-enough architecture.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=653791879
To make this happen, Michael McLennan is coordinating the community
voting for the Tcl Core Team. Visit
http://www.tcltk.com/opentcl
consider the people, and participate. Most of the candidates have
made significant postings on comp.lang.tcl
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.lang.tcl
On the technical side: George Peter Staplin shows how to have
two listboxes share the same scrollbar.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=653888744
Besides giving us the “Quote of the Week”, Karl Lehenbauer talks
about a “kinder, gentler” memory error and a possible way to fix
it.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=653237292
Bob Techentin gives us a quick example of using SWIG to extend
tclsh.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=653211919
Cameron Laird points to Perl’s “State of the Onion”. This thread
has provided much food for thought; including notes on other
scripting languages, and even a contribution from Guido van Rossum!
(author of the Python Language)
http://www.pythonlabs.com
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=651797353
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.misc/core_enhancement.html
For the Newbies:
Have you visited the Tcl Wiki?
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/0.html
Richard Suchenwirth points to a rudimentary screen-saver for the
Mac.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=653121111
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/
Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/
They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good
thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/
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/
Previous – (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! – messages are listed
here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
or
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21
Suggestions/corrections for next week’s posting are always
welcome.
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