Updated 1999-06-06 22:21:00 ▲

by Matt Newman - 'DejaNews:'' [1]

  • A reminder for anyone working with Tcl, in commerce or research: - Tcl/2k : The 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference, Feb 14-18th 2000 (see [2])
  • John Ousterhout has appointed the first official Tcl Ambassador: Jeff Hobbs, working for Scriptics with a mandate to "to raise the level of support Scriptics provides to the Tcl community". (see [3])
  • Dramatic speed improvement through minor change in use of read. (factor of 20-40!). A must for anyone reading large files. (see [4])
  • Simple suggestion for the dreaded Octal number confusion. (see [5])
  • Discussion of command pipes and a clean example of using BLT's bgexec to solve this problem. (see [6])
  • The discussion of Unicode and Tcl 8.1 performance continues. This problem is not going to go away until we get back to O(1) on string operations. (see [7])
  • Making buttons the right size. (see [8])
  • A warning about binary data in Tcl 8.0 vs. 8.1 (channels) (see [9])
  • Dynamic Packages. A good idea whose time is drawing near? (see [10])