2005-02-28
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QOTW:  "Also, I have stopped calling my TCL programs 'scripts'.  I have
noticed that many people (managment types and even some engineers) think
of scripts as being trivial programs." -- Bud Beacham

"[T]ypes are almost always just values stuck in a rut." -- Donal Fellows


POTW:  "Jim is a small footprint implementation of the Tcl programming
language", by the author, among other delights, of hping.
    http://jim.berlios.de


    Relative newcomer Googie provides TclMixer, a low-latency
    SDL-based alternative to Snack.
        http://scripts.one.pl/tclmixer/

    Andreas Leitgeb explores ambiguities and lacunae in the syntax
    and use of [switch].
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/600fef16bb98714b


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  With Europe firmly in the grip of "King Winter", the Wiki remains
  the warm place we love so much! Here is the summary.
  
  A lot of applications ...
  - Would you believe it? An actual neural network on the Wiki -
    check out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8751>
  
  - Managing copy-n-paste under Linux: use this clipboard -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13651>
  
  - Put on your 3D goggles: here is a visualisation tool for
    3D data - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7146>
  
  - From data model to diagram to SQL code - save yourself 
    the trouble of typing that code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11998>
  
  - Tile is being used in more applications than you might 
    think. Have a look: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13636>
  
  A lot of games
  - First of all there is this collection ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13404>
  
  - Then there is this number puzzle ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13272>
  
  A few other things
  - The discussion goes on ... How do we market Tcl?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13216>
  
  - The confusion about "closures" - I do not know if this will 
    help, but it sure has some info ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3330>
  
  - Parallel ports, serial ports, I see the discussions on the newsgroup
    and I never know the one from the other. But: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2816>
    for anyone who does! 
  
  - I cannot resist including this little gem: 3D bar charts ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13680>


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

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/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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