QOTW:  "[T]cl has something to teach about how to abstract concisely. This
was my impression and then I saw a chart in Ousterhout's initial paper that
put data to the impression. And the community is outstanding." - Mark
Smithfield

"We now know that EJB 1 & 2 were based on an entirely flawed set of use
cases." - Bruce Eckel 
    http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312


POTW:  SCPI GPIB supports use of GPIB devices.
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/14780


    Bruce Hartweg cleverly creates a regular expression of
    interest in parsing VHDL descriptions.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/4da3f94fda2aacaa/

    Tcl had a library repository *before* CPAN (and database
    expertise before PHP, Web servers before Python, an
    application server before Ruby, and so on).
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/10e806711e06ad08

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  Please forgive your chronicler, if the summary is less accurate
  this week than usual ... loads of pages are getting assigned to
  the right category: a very useful review, but it makes the 
  summarizing process a trifle more difficult ...
  
  Signals of all sorts
  - Remember the old days, when you could build an electronic
    circuit and look at the output via an oscilloscope?
    Well, here is a script for that ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7137>
  
  - Oh goody, wavelet transforms within the reach of the
    average Tcler ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14021>
  
  - Never underestimate the power of a classical statistical
    distribution - simulating a Poisson distribution can be
    tough, though: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15132>
  
  - Yet another apology requested: one of the first 
    Wiki pages of your chronicler has surfaced ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2837>
  
  Data from all over the world
  - How small can you make a distributed database manager?
    Small, very small - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3636>
  
  - A review of Tcl's networking capabilities never hurts
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8303>
  
  - Someone has finally started on TIP #131 - 
    Mind reading with Tcl ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15126>

  Implements potpourri
  - How to measure the memory use? Various tricks and
    strategies in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4559>
  
  - How to represent the contents of a canvas as a 
    string, so that you can clone it? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9168>
    has the answer.
  
  - How to loop over the contents of a text widget and
    do all kinds of things to it? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3246>
    is just what you need.
  
  
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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