QOTW:  "What I really like about tcl is the ease of writing 'large'
programs without it being large.  What tclers call 'small scripts'
are things like web servers and ftp clients, not hello world ;-)" - slebet

"Tcl seems to me to be a variety of Lisp with about the right amount
of syntactic sugar and a smaller PR department." - William Poser


POTW:  "InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer and builder
designed to be completely cross-platform and function on Windows and
most all version[s] of UNIX with eventual support for Mac OS X."
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1042d52ab2d07b87/


    Congrats to Joe English for the richly-deserved recognition he
    publicly received for his work on Tile.
        http://lwn.net/Articles/160482/

    John Seal configures a widget--and all its descendants.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/55762339a85372db/

    This week's occasion for Bryan Oakley to explain quoting carefully
    presented itself as having to do with backslashes and external
    programs.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3782b87d43191005/

    Quick--change all your account names to "nan", and see what
    errors *that* flushes out.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/2200cf54f3b3fed1?hl=en&

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  This summary of last week's Wiki has many categories ... 
  or none at all. That is, the number of subjects more or
  less equals the number of entries.
  - A game, a maze and some rules: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14985>
   
  - What procedures call which other? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14471>
    produces a dynamic overview
  
  - Putting your Internet browser to work: with dde you 
    can do a lot: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14977>
  
  - Putting the Gimp to work: here is an alternative 
    way of automating that picture editor
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11393>
  
  - An overview of database abstractions: putting
    Tcl to work so to say - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14972>
  
  - Classical data structures can be improved - as is 
    demonstrated by Vlerq - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14089>
  
  - Classical widget can also be improved - and that 
    is demonstrated by Ttk - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14796>
  
  - And finally, creating mathematical diagrams can be   
    joy - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/290>. As there is no
    documentation (yet), you do not need to be able to read 
    French.
  

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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