QOTW:  "My first, gut reaction is the event loop: it is very sexy." - WL 

"My personal answer:  the people.  And the Wiki." - Cameron Laird
"Ditto...that attracted me first to Tcl." - Robert Hicks 


POTW:  TkDND, written by George Petasis, currently offers an alpha release
of the coming 2.0 version.  tkdnd is an extension that adds native drag &
drop capabilities to the tk toolkit.  It can be used with any tk version
equal or greater to 8.4.  Currently only X-Windows and Microsoft Windows
display models are supported.  Under Unix the drag & drop protocol in use
is the XDND protocol version 4 (also used by the QT toolkit, KDE & GNOME
Desktops). Under Windows, the OLE drag & drop interfaces are used.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdnd
    http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=47&Itemid=37


    POLL: Your favourite Tcl features elicits a wide range of responses
    mentioning traces, fileevent, the event loop, i18n through
    utf8handling, tcls channels and "social" features like the Wiki and
    com.lang.tcl with softspoken responses.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/543e31df8495ec97

    How to add a Tk GUI to a C program.  Augmenting a c-programm of your
    own design with a gui. All the Myriad Ways tcl supports:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6637cca432054c51

    Tcl Thread Safety / Windows build
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/e32297e75dcb9383

    How to treat puts <value> as pure text - not a command.  tcl,
    being a well behaved scripting language will hinder you not.  but
    using a string as list may certainly bite the unsuspecting programmer:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/c04f9490c639ff66

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    TIP 262 by Eric Taylor : Background Images for Frames is a new TIP
    Pre- and post-discussion on specifics and extra options i.e tiling
    and anchor:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/8a6c98bc463c5be1
    I want:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/317eb1fa8a4849e4

    TIP 263 by Lars Hellstroem : Quantum Tcl is a new TIP.  It proposes
    the single step to computing nirvana by means of quantum computing. 
    This will push tcl by means of "quantum-tunneling" through the
    wave of programming paradigms and place it back on the leading
    edge of scripting languages. 

URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week 10 (!) years ago:
    ANNOUNCE: TkDesk, a file manager for Unix/X
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d5c99676af02a9fa

    Tk 4.0 and Linux
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/2884ec31fa92b484

    iwidgets 2.0.1 and DP
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/f38847672c587b49

    Namespaces -- using interp and package
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/101e89c036934043


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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