QOTW:  "Tcl is easier than I imagined." - various, including silas

"All AOLServer threads are constantly fiddling around with the heap, so any
chance of memory locality is probably hopeless." - Jim Wilcoxson


POTW:  Hecl is "new and no one ... uses it"--but it might run on David
Welton's cellular handset.  Well, there's more to it than that.
    http://www.hecl.org/
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/5df4645c20e7c7cc


    A pertinent challenge:  where indeed is ReportTclBug2SF.kit?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/f3b019e6808afe3d

    TclXML (plus friends TclDOM and so on) is (are) available as
    3.1 for Linux (and Mac OS X and so on).
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fb8ce7c033f36f47/

    Getting GUIs right can be hard.  Here's a typical discussion about
    the subtleties of end-user selections in listboxes:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c725d27e4b57414/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  The Wiki being what it is, it is surprising that there does seem
  to be a "theme" in all the updates. Last week's might be identified
  as "optimisation" - either in performance or in coding.
  
  GUI things
  - A progress bar that does not show the progress in percentages -
    but just that something is going on - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12786>
  
  - Making the text widget fit in with "modern" expectations about 
    a text editor - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14918> 
  
  - An entry widget inside a table widget that behaves as if 
    it belonged there. Okay, you need some special reasons for
    trying to do this, but still - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14902>
  
  - Let us invent a graphical front-end for tcltest and let us
    call it "tclunit" - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5647>
  
  Games and other fun things
  - A tightly coded tetris - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14923> -
    or can it be reduced further?
  
  - Manipulating sound in tiny pieces - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14930>
  
  Fast things
  - How fast can you multiple two small matrices?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10326>
  
  - How fast can you invert a small matrix?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14921>
  
  It's only human ...
  - to try and get Tcl into fashion again - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9505>
  
  - to try and automate tedious tasks like uploading new software
    onto SourceForge. The French Wiki provides a solution:
    <http;//wfr.tcl.tk/1029>
  

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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