QOTW:  "But for everything else, if it's long enough to be worth writing in a
file in the first place, it's (almost) always better written in Tcl." - Donal
K. Fellows 
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/b4f27bb3f7b7110a?hl=en&

"Tclers and eggdroppers are two communities deeply divided by a common
language... with very different style and expectations." - Richard 
Suchenwirth


POTW:  TILE:  and just to keep people aware that it will change their
experience:  the Tile Widget Set is a next-generation re-implementation of
many of the core Tk widgets, along with the addition of several new widgets.
With Tile, Tk applications can achieve an appearance much closer to native
platform widgets, as well as take advantage of a modern, highly dynamic
theme engine to produce a wide variety of alternative user interface styles.
Tile widgets complement the existing Tk widgets, and Tile is currently being
incorporated directly into Tk.
    http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/


    Building extensions under Ming-GW:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/97568295fdb5c77c/

A new Web site devoted to Tcl is of high quality:
        http://www.tclscripting.com
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/6133964bdb308943

    TEA : adding a library reference:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/ffe1c715aa05a972

    Discussions on Tile (Ttk), assumptions made by users,
    and the divergence with what the developers aim for.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/870beec517a3e10b
        http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9707600&forum_id=3854

    New service on comp.lang.tcl : BashTran, converting 
    a bash shell-script to tcl: 
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/35a56e81896d39ba

    Hitches you can run into with expect on its own:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/ea9d5032c8617895
    and with porting from linux to windows:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/7ba40cc9d999ab05/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
  Some long pages with exposes that may never be complete,
  some short pages that nicely fit on the screen, in other
  words, business as usual.
  
  Discussions and expositions
  - If you have a slave interpreter, what should the [exit]
    command do? Remarkable facettes of what seems a simple
    command at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/894>
  
  - Should a programming language be more natural? 
    Pros and cons at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15488>
  
  - And for all your thoughts and insights:
    "postits" - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15485>
  
  Demos, games and little helpers
  - Visually changing the work directory - 
    Richard Suchenwirth creates yet another 
    little tool for those little computers
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15506>
  
  - Enter and leave: binding commands to events
    is so easy and useful ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14573>
  
  - A promise for the near future: inspection tools
    for Windows - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15501>
  
  - Make OpenOffice work from within Tcl? Just
    use "tcluno" - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15447>
  
  - Wrap your app in a single executable with Freewrap ...
    This little - French - tool will make it easier 
    when there are several files to consider -
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/919>
  
  - If you have solved six puzzles today, why not
    finish it off with a 3D maze? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4188>
    for your delight!
  
  
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
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    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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