Version 29 of Tcl-URL!

Where to find it

This weekly newsletter can be obtained in different ways:

If you subscribe to the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl, you will receive Tcl-URL! along with all the other postings to the newsgroup.
To receive a new issue in e-mail each Monday, ask mailto:[email protected] to subscribe
2004/12/23 sheila (text revised by KJN) Use Google Groups, http://groups.google.com to search the newsgroup postings: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.tcl+tclurl&scoring=d

Archives

The first issue was dated 1998/05/13, and was written by Jean-Claude Wippler. The frequency is approximately weekly.
All issues from the first are in Google Groups; the best way to find them all is to select "Advanced Search", and specify comp.lang.tcl as the Group, and tcl-url as the Subject. Sorted by date, with 100 hits per page, this search is [L1 ]
The archive at http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html covers the dates 1998/05/13 to 2000/07/17. The same site archives the Python-URL! archive over a similar period.
Early Tcl-URL pages has three issues, dated 1999/02/01, 1999/02/08, 1999/02/22.

Other web sites mentioned for tcl-url appear to be defunct. They are:

http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/ (requires free login; seems to have stopped carrying this newsletter, or else hidden it very well)
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/ (Redirects to developerpipeline)
http://www.tcl.tk/tclurl/ (Redirects to the Dr. Dobbs site and then to developerpipeline)
http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/ - mentioned on http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html but was dead on 2005/09/08

About Tcl-URL!

Question: What is the "purl.org" domain name in the link? This is Tcl, after all!
Answer: Yes, this name has an unfortunate ring to it, especially when pronounced. Look at the OCLC's [L2 ] site for a simple explanation.

Tcl-URL! is not yet another resource (well, it wasn't intended as such). Let me put it differently: once it becomes one of N resources, I think it will have failed. There's plenty of that already, this would be N+1.

Tcl-URL! does two things, but it's still one and the same issue: making the volatile Usenet work better. For long-time c.l.t readers, it can be a front page headline service, for first-time visitors it can be the gate to all the main resources.

Perhaps Tcl-URL! can also be the breeding place for new sections, which when they become large enough would be split off and mentioned periodically, or at least launched so that they can start leading a life of their own.

Acknowledgements

Tcl-URL! is posted weekly on the news:comp.lang.tcl and news:comp.lang.tcl.announce newsgroups, by a rotating team of volunteers. Each posting contains 5-10 newsworthy items, with references to the corresponding articles in these newsgroups, or a link to an announcement page on the web. Everyone participating in this joint effort does so for a month or two, before passing the stick on to another volunteer from the Tcl/Tk community.

The format of the weekly Tcl-URL! postings is kept simple, and focused on content (example: [L3 ]). This page will continue to track all weekly announcements, acting as an archive and as monument to honor all those who have participated in this project.

So far, the following people have helped maintain the Tcl-URL! resource:

             Stuart Cassoff   -  [email protected]
            Laurent Duperval  -  [email protected]
            Cameron Laird     -  [email protected]
              Arjen Markus    -  [email protected]
               Matt Newman    -  [email protected]
               Mark Roseman   -  [email protected]
              Brett Schwarz   -  [email protected]
                Roy Terry     -  [email protected]
        Jean-Claude Wippler   -  [email protected]

Current: as of jan 2006

              Arjen Markus    -  [email protected]               The Tclers Wiki
                Uwe Klein     -  [email protected]      Comp.lang.tcl and other news
            Cameron Laird     -  [email protected]                     Supervising Editor

As you can imagine with such a new initiative, we are looking for more volunteers! Let it be said that your participation and effort will be highly visible and a most honorable way to help support Tcl/Tk and its flourishing community. Please contact the current maintainer or me if you are interested in sharing your personal choice of news items through Tcl-URL! for a while. See How to be a Tcl-Url editor!.

-- JC

Tcl-URL! has relatives. "Python-URL!" [L4 ] is an immediate sibling, largely involving the same people and processes as "Tcl-URL!". Somewhat more distant are periodic news digests for such technologies as:

Ruby Weekly News [L5 ];
Perl;
Linux kernel [L6 ], Linux Weekly News [L7 ]; Gentoo Weekly Newsletter [L8 ]

... [many more] [give references] ... For language discussion, see also the Lightweight Languages list [L9 ] and the Programming Languages Weblog [L10 ].

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