Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 1)

QOTW:  "I think the Tcl people are as friendly as their programming language
is to them." -- ever-analytic Jean-Luc Fontaine

"I keep wondering how I ever managed to program before Usenet." -- Suzanne


'Midst well-founded encomia to compl.lang.tcl, David Welton
aptly suggests a particularly constructive way to express
appreciation.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...r />
c7fc6212/

Don Libes helps Phil Freed build a "cute" telnet-to-ssh converter.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...3
b61eb/

Top engineers know there are all sorts of ways to combine key
programming ideas; just working with XML, for example, you might
apply regular expressions, or invoke XSLT, or generate interpretable
Tcl with Java-based XSLT, or ...
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...b
0f181/

Tcl is a potent vehicle for test automation.  Among other patterns,
Bot Techentin and Erik Leunissen isolate regression items in their
own slave interpreters.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...c
ed747/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
Something useful, something fun, like always the Wiki is there
for everyone.

Graphical somethings
- Mancala is an ancient game of African origin, it is described
on this somewhat less ancient Wiki page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4297>

- 1 cm is how many m again? Well, if you need to type in measurements,
this specialised widget may come in handy - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/697>

- You should use it if only for the beauty of the pictures you can
create - contour plots in 2D and 3D using Tcl only ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/1825>

- The story about non-western characters continues. What sanskrit
text do you want to write today? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14277>

- And while you are at it, time may fly - so it is important
to see it - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14268>

Technical somethings
- Tcl allows a lot of introspection - you can exploit that.
For instance to see the state your interpreter is in ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/4470>

- Relational operations? In the world of databases you can
never get enough of them - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14263>

- Who says you can not manipulate the smallest bits of
information in Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14274> intends
to help hardware people


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

"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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