QOTW:  "If you wanted obfuscated code, you should have written it in
Perl. :)" -- William J Poser 

"IMO what swing needs is idle handling like Tk's ... [s]ince it's that
which makes Tk seem like greased lightning." -- Donal K. Fellows


POTW:  Code-Navigator 1.0 is ready.                
    http://www.codenav.com/
    http://wellcode.com/home/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2  


    It's been a time for spirited reflection on what Colin McCormack
    characterizes as the "glaring symmetry" of {expand}.  Joe English
    is bitter, Bryan Oakley raises his cup to the devteam, and so on.
    Notice particularly Bryan's enumeration of [event generate ... -data
    ...], ensembles, "in", and so on, as reasons to adopt 8.5.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/63902b13e9ccd26b/

    The ActiveTcl-dev mailing list is "for those interested in ...
    discussion about the ActiveTcl distribution."
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActiveTcl-dev

    David Bariod provides "a single [E]xpect command waiting on
    two stream[s] ...".
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/48d14c05f0eb2836/

    Michael Cleverly and Schelte Bron provide a tutorial on aspects
    of regular expressions.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/af04539178e3a2de/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  After filtering a wagon load of new and changed pages on 
  the two Wikis, your humble chronicler emerges tired but
  enlightened and a tiny bit frustrated ... Oh well ...
  
  Tcl's (r)evolution:
  - The roadmap to version 8.5 is there for everyone
    to see - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12753> - but perhaps
    some updates are due.
  
  - Though it is a very very dynamic language, no
    mention seems made of Tcl in announcements of the
    dynamic languages conference - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13325>
  
  - Under the inconspicuous name of "fuse", the Linux
    kernel is getting a virtual file system - when it does,
    Tcl is ready! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13853>
  
  Things you probably did not know:
  - Reading a string from the keyboard is easy with [gets],
    but reading a _single_ character? It can be done!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14693>
   
  - What do you need to do to make your Tcl application
    interact properly with Tkcon or other programs that
    send commands via sockets? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14701>
    presents the secret! 
  
  Of signs and symbols
  - A veritable essay on the symbolic language of mathematics
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14685> (and a simple implementation
    of some of its ideas at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14686>)
  
  - A small package for multiple-choice questionnaires:
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1001> on the French Wiki
  
  - Manipulating photographs? Again the French Wiki
    comes to the rescue: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1004> presents
    the fastest package so far, <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1006>
    lets you turn a photograph in pure Tcl.


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
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    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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