by [Cameron Laird] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=381909540]

''The struggle to be brief continues: as massive as these weekly summaries appear, they represent only a fraction of the ideas and news percolating in the Tcl world. As always, I welcome recommendations on where to set the boundary between what to include and what to leave aside.''

   * [Scriptics]' Beta 7 of TclPro supports HP-UX ("version 10"?), halves the size of compiled scripts, and rectifies several smaller faults (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=381326549])
   * Dr. SWIG, [David Beazley], agrees to contribute his talents to the CS department of the University of Chicago http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley
   * [John Ousterhout] released three valuable papers last month to which I'm only now drawing attention http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/choose.html http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/scriptHistory.html http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/tclHistory.html
   * [Bryan Oakley] nicely analyzes a GUI motif of tabs mediated by a listbox, (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379530491]) while [George Howlett] succinctly advertises [BLT]'s tabset for many of the same purposes (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379569231]) Bryan also explains what it takes to "page" through a sequence of displays (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379735327])
   * [Larry Virden] recalls Tcl/Tk's roots as an *alternative* to the so-often-sought Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=380053399]) Among the recommendations Larry (implicitly) makes there are ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/tclUsenix90.ps and ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/tkUsenix91.ps Larry also testifies on how he learned what he knows about Tcl (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=378868475]) and then what he did to build on that (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379317064])
   * [Bob Techentin] insightfully critiques existing and prospective Tk GUI builders (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379777736]) and inspires several other mature engineers to a vigorous discussion of IDE's roles, CASE, alternative technologies to Tcl, ...
   * Chris Brown asks an apt question about opaque types, which receives several distinct correct answers (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=380129396])
   * Tclpp is a "pure Tcl" object-oriented system reminiscent of C++ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/2836/tclpp.html
   * Duncan Barclay draws attention to Tuan Doan's .dxf converter from 1993 (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=381452364])
   * Kumar Srinivas reveals that isql-tcl 4.0 (that's an Informix interface) is imminent (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379749093])
   * Joachim Faulhaber balances his karma with a methodical tutorial on construction of a new Tk widget (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=379659891])
   * Eric Boudaillier carefully explains a nice small instance of the use of "break" in an event binding (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=380343348])