2005-06-01:
<pre>QOTW:  "I think the Tcl people are as friendly as their programming language
is to them." -- ever-analytic Jean-Luc Fontaine

"I keep wondering how I ever managed to program before Usenet." -- Suzanne


    'Midst well-founded encomia to compl.lang.tcl, David Welton
    aptly suggests a particularly constructive way to express
    appreciation.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/index/browse_frm/thread/26f207e4c7fc6212/

    Don Libes helps Phil Freed build a "cute" telnet-to-ssh converter.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/92228a326a3b61eb/

    Top engineers know there are all sorts of ways to combine key
    programming ideas; just working with XML, for example, you might
    apply regular expressions, or invoke XSLT, or generate interpretable
    Tcl with Java-based XSLT, or ...
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5acde07b47b0f181/

    Tcl is a potent vehicle for test automation.  Among other patterns, 
    Bot Techentin and Erik Leunissen isolate regression items in their
    own slave interpreters.
         http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5319360351ced747/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Something useful, something fun, like always the Wiki is there
  for everyone.
  
  Graphical somethings
  - Mancala is an ancient game of African origin, it is described
    on this somewhat less ancient Wiki page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4297>
  
  - 1 cm is how many m again? Well, if you need to type in measurements,
    this specialised widget may come in handy - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/697>
  
  - You should use it if only for the beauty of the pictures you can
    create - contour plots in 2D and 3D using Tcl only ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1825>
  
  - The story about non-western characters continues. What sanskrit
    text do you want to write today? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14277>
  
  - And while you are at it, time may fly - so it is important
    to see it - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14268>
  
  Technical somethings
  - Tcl allows a lot of introspection - you can exploit that.
    For instance to see the state your interpreter is in ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4470>
  
  - Relational operations? In the world of databases you can 
    never get enough of them - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14263>
  
  - Who says you can not manipulate the smallest bits of
    information in Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14274> intends
    to help hardware people 
    

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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