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From: Cameron Laird on 14 May 2010 16:40
QOTW: "Tcl just co-ops the vast infrastructure of C." - tom.rmadilo,
struggling to express how important it is to face such challenges as
"How to interface with hardware, How to interface with the OS, How to
interface with other applications, ..."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/c02fb0f50446c320


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his approximately-weekly summary of Wiki
activity:
A quiet week for the Wiki, but still some interesting pages to
report. Let the summary begin!

Packaging
- Here is a remarkable little development, akin to Tclkit: put your
application in a wish-enabled zip-file - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26152>
and follow the link.

- If you need to change your code on the fly - better known as
templating and macro processing, you have numerous options.
A convenient list is at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2084>

- Coroutines, we can not stress this enough, are a very powerful
mechanism. They may be strange at first, but let's face it,
when used properly they are unbeatable! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21446>

- Why use XML when there are so much better ways to achieve your
goal (for mathematically sound values of "better"). Here is
such a way: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25681> for defining mathematical
objects.

- Sometimes you need a console window in your application. Windows
has one out-of-the-box ... Linux/OSX has this one:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/786> and of course there are alternatives for
all platforms.

Packages
- LDAP just got supported in yet another way - via CGI. Check it
out at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1827>

- A whole bunch of small Tk utilities - for instance: getting
size information while the window is being resized ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/8423>

- Managing the system tray on Linux - multiple solutions or
approximations at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5972>

- As a physicist your chronicler can not ignore a package
like this one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/530> helps converting
from one measurement unit to the other.








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://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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