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QOTW:  "Tcl and PDA make a glorious couple." -- Richard Suchenwirth

"Astonishing how hard it is to find something when you don't know its
name..." -- Peter Flynn


POTW:  "Moodss: it's a nice operating system, but to really compete it needs
a better spreadsheet."  See for yourself all the functionality that justifies
Larry Smith's quip.
    http://moodss.sourceforge.net/

    
    EuroTcl5 is only days away.
        http://www.t-ide.com/tcl2005e/tcl2005e.html

    Aric Bills and other provide a tutorial on Tcl's view of the command-line.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/index/browse_frm/thread/6e9fd58a42962ed7/

    Donal Fellows discourses on comments
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f534c6194d05ff33/

    Richard Hipp gracefully introduces SQLite as a persistence 
    technology for those with an interest in safety, concurrency,
    and so on.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a04f3ffc45963ccf/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  The Wiki may be a large set of pages with little hierarchy, that does not
  mean that old pages are lost forever! Actually, last week saw the revival
  of quite a few of those ...
  
  Publish or perish?
  - If you have a nice little Tcl program, where can you put it so other can
    find it? The Wiki is one place, but sometimes you need more ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1250> provides some guidance 
  
  - This overview may not be complete, so if you know of more articles on Tcl 
    then please add them! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1016>
  
  Read or write or edit?
  - Reading the serial port is a piece of cake, it seems - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1885>
  
  - Writing an text editor in Tcl is too - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11820>
  
  - Why would you derive the expression for the derivative of a function
    yourself, if you can let the function do it on its own? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14092> builds on the work of others ...
  
  One picture says more than ...
  - A spline is not quite a spline, well, you have several possibilities
    to define the curve you want - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8536> offers
    at least two! 
  
  - Enjoy the 3D world of spirals ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14096>
  
  - An expose of GUI "themes" and their consequences in the Tile
    extension ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13373>
  
  - An alternative for listboxes - just draw the items in a canvas
    and you can easily drag them and drop them - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14109>
    

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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  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
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  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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