2004-12-01
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QOTW:  "I'm fairly sure UML is at least as good for you as studying
Latin." -- Robert L. Read

"If Tcl/Tk had a team of hired programmers that were *paid* to hack Tk,
so that they could eat, then I suspect we would have a feature-filled Tk.
I doubt the quality would be much better though."  -- George Peter Staplin


POTW:  GroovX is a sophisticated psycophysics framework.
    http://www.klab.caltech.edu/rjpeters/groovx/


    Panedwindows manage one dimension at a time.  Bryan Oakley and Jeff
    Hobbs can do two.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=242f0ff0a7f19241

    C++ and Tcl can co-operate, in any of a number of ways.  Maciej
    Sobczak explains his approach.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=76ef157e41072d86
        
    Bob Techentin illustrates one specific case of the general pattern
    of fortification of Tcl source against changes in platform,
    situation, ...  The instance at hand has to do with autotools.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=6a57feddf608027f

    FOSDEM has again offered the Tcl community a developers' room.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ba7a021ed8db4d50

    Bruce Hartweg and others resolve a mystery which touches on traces
    types, and scope.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=b9e7e0e6e3557b7f

    The width and height of a frame can be subtle qualifications.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=b040d5a125762d86
    
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  What delightful new pages: the first robot (that I know of) has come to 
  the Wiki as well as beautiful living crystals (well, patterns that 
  mimick crystalline growth). Anyway, time for a summary
  
  Physics and mathematics:
  - Create order out of chaos with just a simple rule ... 
    <http://wiki.tcl/tk/13085> or go to the French wiki directly:
    <http://wfr.tcl/tk/757>
  
  - Marco Maggi may call it a useless widgets package, but it is a delight
    to see this robot arm ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13084>
  
  - A classical construction with a triangle: find the circumcentre 
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13044> with a link to a further page ...
  
  Programming:
  - A nice editor in Tcl, but prepare for a description in French,
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/753>
  
  - Here is an example of using the ASN module in Tcllib: parsing an 
    SSL certificate - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13088>
  
  Human aspects:
  - We all think it is, but here it is written down: How Tcl is special 
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk.1867>
  
  - Nevertheless, it is not always easy to convince others ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9644>
  
  - But perhaps this page offers a solution to the challenge ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13060>
  

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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