QOTW:  "In fact, [encoding convert] ... is usually a mistake ..."  Kevin
Kenny

"I notice that there is no comparison of TCL with Snobol4." -- newcomer
Dave Feustel on the Wiki


    Thank Robert Hicks for the magnificent new Oratcl home page.
	http://oratcl.sourceforge.net  

    vim's now much better--or at least more colorful--for Tcl.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f6f6cfce1ccce40/

    "AOLserver 4.5.0 is a major upgrade ..."
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/49833f843a0dab5b/

    Richard Suchenwirth updates his RPN experiments.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/49833f843a0dab5b/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
  With the current World Football Championship going
  on, you would say people have no time to program
  and post their results on the Wiki ... well, quite
  the contrary!
  
  Tcling in French
  - The French Wiki now contains a number of pages 
    intended to help "francophones" with Tcl ... 
    <http:/wfr.tcl.tk/1140> provides an
    overview, but <http://wfr.tcl.tk/280> is a nice
    tutorial in its own right.
  
  - Cells is an easy-to-use GUI builder, judging
    from the comments - so, have a look:
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/990>
  
  Data, files and databases
  - A nice GUI for a variety of databases, all
    packed in a starkit ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10776>
  
  - You never know what these installation scripts 
    and programs do with your disk, do you?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15986> may help out though.
  
  - Beyond local file systems, there is of course
    the possibility of an archive network system
    - reanimate one of the attempts? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12370>
  
  Languages, manuals, words
  - Rearrange the letters and you get a well-known
    acronym ... Yet another demonstration of 
    Tcl's chameleontic character ... 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16084>
  
  - And the same acronym pops up on this page
    with historical names and all - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3401>
  
  - Reading the fine print in the manual can 
    save coding time, sometimes, but the hands-on
    experience is not too bad: selecting words
    in the text widget - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16076>
  
  - Talking of words, a severe omission of 
    Babelfish has been recognised and dealt with
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10356> for all speakers
    of pig latin.
  
  Tk
  - Using Tk together with "set-userid" can cause,
    uhm, interesting effects - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2654>
  
  - 3D visualisation (via Tcl3D or tkogl as it was once
    called) gets ample attention on the Wiki, just 
    look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15278> or
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14632> or ...
  
  - Vandalism sometimes has the fortunate side effect to
    bring back old pages ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10414>
    for instance
  

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 (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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