2005-06-10:
<pre>QOTW:  "My favorite code repository is my brain - once I understood a (simple)
algorithm, I can always reproduce it without thinking much :D" -- Richard
Suchenwirth

"Life's too short to find new ways of interacting with MS software :/" -- Steve
Landers


POTW:  tkpath "implements path drawing modelled after its SVG counterpart".
    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/930c670596a1c970/

    
    Is any Tcl work more important to newcomers than David Welton's
    tutorial?
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/35c4a2cd3e4d1b81/

    Tcl luminary Jean-Claude Wippler's "Ratcl is a completely new development
    which implements Relational Algebra ... to provide new persistence
    solutions for scripting languages.  . . .  [K]eep in mind that they syntax
    ... has already evolved ..." beyond what appears in the EuroTcl paper
    below.
        http://www.equi4.com/docs/tcl2005e/
        http://www.vlerq.org/vlerq/250 
	http://www.vlerq.org/

    Arjen Markus provides a numerical algorithmist's perspective on
    two-dimensional Tcl arrays.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d2d26a27eff1f3d8/

    As most weeks this season, Khaled admirably summarizes a few aspects
    of Expect--regular expression matching, in this case.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/73850d2deef81b4d/

    The masses have clamored for a MacOS ActiveTcl for years.  Now that
    it's here, is it a good thing?
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b4f3772492e3602d/

    Melissa Schrumpf carefully explains how Tcl and awk achieve some of
    the same effects with different means.
       http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f43f5c4ec0400468/

    Is *** in your RE toolkit?  It is for studious Michael Cleverly.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/index/browse_frm/thread/ff315c1c646248f3/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Games, graphics and profound discussions and thoughts: Let
  the summary begin! 
  
  Games:
  - You can take a prototype and expand it - for the benefit
    of your own skills or for the pleasure of improving an
    existing game - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14290> to play
    "Lotto"
  
  - Want to solve number puzzles? Sudoku can now be played
    on an iPaq too - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13272>
  
  - You chronicler is not sure whether this is a game
    or something else. The picture looks intriguing though:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6559>
  
  Graphics and other (technical) stuff:
  - OpenGL receives a lot of attention on this page
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2237> and perhaps you may 
    want to inspect Tkogl at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14302>
  
  - Automating the use of Open Office via Tcl and tcom:
    Read this French page at <http://wfr.tcl.tk/963>
  
  - Just a toy: your humble chronicler had fun with maths
    (group theory): <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14285>
  
  - The Fifth EuroTcl meeting had three talks on the
    Tile extension - have a look via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10647>
  
  - How useful is aspect-oriented programming in the context
    of Tcl? Contribute to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12067> if you like
  
  Parsing (a sort of special):
  - For some parsing tasks regular expressions are just not
    powerful enough ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4164>
  
  - But perhaps combining parsers can help solve a few
    more parsing problems ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14295>
    

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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