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From: Cameron Laird on 10 Jun 2010 11:02
QOTW: "... [C]oroutine and tailcall are significant steps toward a
Tcl
theory of programming that is different from Lisp's." - Kevin Kenny


With the help of many, 5.0 of Tablelist now includes a multi-column
tree widget, and much more.
http://www.nemethi.de


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
The aftermath of the European Tclers' Meeting showed a lot of
announcements on c.l.t. And quite some activity on the Wiki too.

Human aspects
- You can read a summary of the meeting on the Wiki -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/24523>

- To protect one's source code from fiendish eyes ... Is that
possible?
Yes, a discussion on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11612> and a tool on
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/26466> (though you would not guess that from
the
page's title)

- Sometimes pages are used for the wrong purpose - the Tcl Dev
Exchange
page simply explains what the Exchange is about, it is not used
for answering questions - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20790>

More or less basic
- Tcl is so wonderfully versatile - create configuration files based
on
two different ideas: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26455> and
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/26458>

- Getting a list of meteorological stations (and then the meteo info
itself of course) is no particular problem. Just follow the
instructions: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19633>

- GRIDPLUS2 is a wonderful way of defining the layout of your GUI.
Now with a new tip on how to interact with the contained widget
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16993>

Little wonders
- Try and test this branch: Support for IPv6 is to appear in Tcl 8.6,
but more testing is required. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25947>

- Coroutines are just amazing - and puzzling until, finally, you
do grok them. Get started with them rightaway: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/
26405>

- Do not think you should forget about basic mathematical things,
like
Pythagoras! You can almost always make a nice picture out of them:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/26449>

- And you do not need to be a mathematician either to create such
pictures. Here is the result of a biologist tinkering with just a
few
letters (no, not AGTC as found in DNA): <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26467>


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/

Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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