2013-05-28 I've been discovering Tcl a bit in the last time, altough only by reading not by programming. I think it could be worth a deeper look, especially for building GUIs. I seldom feed the need to do so, but occasionally this is useful though and currently my only way to do so is website programming. Well, there's a worthwhile text to read about Tcl: David N. Wel- ton discusses ``Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong''. [0] There's more I've read recently. For instance about the PDP2011, the recreation of a PDP-11 in VHDL. It's available on a palm-sized board and runs Unix v5-v7 and BSD 2.11. How nice! [1] Then the well-known Useless Use of $foo awards. There's this sec- tion on `kill -9' that I've not known yet. [2] F*EX [3] appears to be worth a closer look, too. Furthermore, some thoughts about the need for less resource demanding software. [4] [5] [6] This comes at the right time as I can't believe that this quadcore@2.16 GHz with 4 GB memory (ac- tually only 2.6 GB usable -- why?) is *horribly* non-responsive when working in MS Word on Windows 7. Selecting some words, in- serting a letter, deleting one, and the like is so slow, you sim- ply can't use it for proof-reading unless you're already 80 years old. (Don't let me start with the ``intelligent'' text selection ``support'' in this version of Word ...) Have a look at [7] [8] for further discussion on the failures of computing. [0] http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk- went-wrong [1] http://pdp2011.sytse.net/wordpress/pdp-11/ [2] http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter [3] http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ [4] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/a-failure-of-logic/ [5] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5818 [6] http://rule.zona-m.net/ [7] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1305/index.html#msg15677 [8] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1305/index.html#msg15679 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke