Tcl-URL! for August 21, 2000

Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:48:52 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 21)
From: "Hall, Leam" <LHall@rosenbluth.com>

Did you know Tcl has it's own collaboratively-edited community web site? Daily updates and new ideas at:
http://purl.org/tcl/wiki

For example, Richard Suchenwirth gives a programmers view of why Tcl is a superior scripting language.
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/540.html

Do you like tuning code performance? Bob Techentin talks about file reads, ...
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=658907252

Kevin Kenny identifies faster ways to deal with exceptions,
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659124495

And of course, you can find lots of tips and ideas at:
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TclPerformance
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/TkPerformance

For the Newbies:

Daniel Glasser and Cameron Laird tag team to explain "exec" and "eval" issues.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659744424

Then Daniel goes on to gives some Windows pointers on writing to and reading from text files.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=659731601

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/

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

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