cmacleod4

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by cmacleod4 3d ago
Newsgrouper is my site. It's not literally "banned", but after spending quite a bit of time studying the Online Safety Act and Ofcom's guidance, I concluded that it was just not practical to comply with its far-reaching
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by cmacleod4 3d ago
I run newsgrouper.org as a hobby project. My architecture cannot support searching within article text, only by author, subject and/or date within one group at a time (or the set of groups you have subscribed to). Usenet-Rewind does
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by cmacleod4 7d ago
A classic, but somewhat dated now.
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by cmacleod4 16d ago
This makes no sense to me. Tcl does have a central event loop. I'm not sure what you mean by "building up a significant scaffolding" - the event system is powerful enough and flexible enough to support all kinds of uses.
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by cmacleod4 2mo ago
A remarkably comprehensive and well-written introduction to Tcl!
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by cmacleod4 2mo ago
A remarkably comprehensive and well-written introduction to Tcl!
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by cmacleod4 2mo ago
The target market is "power users" who want maximum functionality and don't care much about prettiness. I used to work on some of the code behind those "clunky" screens. I would say that Bloomberg UIs generally do
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by cmacleod4 2mo ago
The Bloomberg Terminal started as dedicated hardware, but it has been Windows-based software for at least 20 years. At one time a Solaris-based version was developed, but that never took off and was dropped. These days there are plenty of
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by cmacleod4 3mo ago
"The internet today still does not have a good discussion medium like Usenet, and I am not sure if it ever will." Several web interfaces to Usenet exist, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_Usenet#Web
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by cmacleod4 3mo ago
The list of talks for this year's Tcl and OpenACS conference has just been published: https://openacs.km.at/ . It's all happening in Vienna, Austria, on 16 & 17 July. Registration officially closes tomorrow,
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OpenACS and Tcl/Tk conference: Talks list now online(openacs.km.at)
3 points by cmacleod4 3mo ago|1 comments
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by cmacleod4 3mo ago
As another post pointed out, AI as a field of research started about the time I was born (LLMs are another matter of course). So everything I've created has been since that time. Some of my software tools are listed at https:/&
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
"worst case is trying to develop some small utility like a tool to search in files using regex" - you mean something like: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/ReacTcl+example%3A+Grv ? This will run on Windows, Lin
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
"there are no native GUI frameworks for simple tools that are easy, fast, and simple to develop in at the same time" - Tcl/Tk does all that just fine for me.
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
As I said, the user interface is awkward. You need to select the "Content" checkbox when searching for Posts. E.g. to search for "deadlock" within comp.lang.tcl, start with https://usenetarchives.com/in
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
In the early days Usenet propagation was slow and haphazard because the communication links available were very limited. Nowadays I can post a message on one Usenet server and it appears on other servers in a few seconds. So coherent real
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
Spam fell off drastically after Google Groups disconnected from Usenet a couple of years ago.
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
I had tried this site a year or two ago and found it unusable then, but it seems greatly improved now. I found posts as old as 1982, but recent coverage seems to stop around April 2022. Crucially, it supports full-text search on posts wit
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by cmacleod4 5mo ago
Nice presentation, looks like the same thing I implemented in Tcl here: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/ReacTcl :-)
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OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2026: Vienna, 16-17 July(openacs.km.at)
4 points by cmacleod4 6mo ago|0 comments
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by cmacleod4 6mo ago
I have a Tcl Improvement Proposal (TIP 676) currently being voted on which introduces an alternative compact form of calculation. The implementation uses a Pratt parser: https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/file?ci=cgm-equals
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by cmacleod4 6mo ago
You might be interested in https://newsgrouper.org - my web interface to Usenet, text-only. The site is implemented in Tcl, but only needs a web browser for a client. Some Android users find it preferable to the available nati
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by cmacleod4 6mo ago
Your question was probably misinterpreted as sarcasm. :-(
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by cmacleod4 8mo ago
Here's mine: https://cmacleod.me.uk/ - I'm a retired programmer, my site has links to various projects, mostly in Tcl, some Javascript or C, also old blog, etc.
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by cmacleod4 8mo ago
Note: when posting a link to an article on Newsgrouper it's best to use the "Permalink" at the bottom of the article. People clicking that will get straight to the article without needing to login as a guest. The permalink
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by cmacleod4 8mo ago
As with most Python problems, the solution is to switch to Tcl - https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/interp.html#M44 :-)
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by cmacleod4 9mo ago
Very interesting! Note that the name might be confused with an old project: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Feather .
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by cmacleod4 11mo ago
In Tcl you can redefine "if", or even delete it entirely if you're crazy enough :-)
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by cmacleod4 11mo ago
The one thing that really annoys me about HN is that when you return to a discussion that you read the day before, there is no way to easily find the comments which are new since your previous visit. This is basic functionality which Usene
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by cmacleod4 11mo ago
What "acquisition"? Nobody owns Usenet, it's a cooperative effort between many different server operators which continues to this day.

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