QOTW:  "How come 'Perl' means, 'Perl plus whatever junk anyone shoved into
CPAN', 'Java' means 'Java plus scads of Sun-supplied and third-party
libraries', but 'Tcl' means 'an unadorned Tcl distribution, usually years
out of date, minus whatever's broken in that distribution?'" - Kevin Kenny

"M$ Windows may or may not suck, but given a large enough hammer it 
can be pounded into submission." - David Gravereaux


    Tcl's 8.5 C application programming interface has time
    virtualization functions.  Maybe someone will eventually
    (understand and) explain their use.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/df696f6cff1f13f9

    George Staplin, Donal Fellows, Mikhail Teterin, and others
    debate what data should appear in a Tcl_Obj.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dbf52553f8c7e827/

    ANSI_ARGS deserves to be on the way out, as it is in 8.5:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/52c57d315fda5553/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
  Summer is heating up the European continent ...
  but the Wiki is as active as ever. Time for an
  overview
  
  Applications
  - Interested in biological things like the genetic
    relation between species? Then this may be the
    thing for you: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16112>
  
  - You have a small company and want an ERP?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16113> may be just what
    you need.
  
  - Show the contents of a database or try out 
    a query or two? There are lots of applications
    to do that. Here is one from the French Wiki:
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/240> - dealing with SQLite
  
  - Visualise and edit graphs? Again, plenty of 
    solutions but not all are free of charge. 
    Here is one for graphs in "dot" format - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16097>
  
  - Finite state machines are perhaps a bit rarer
    as the object of an editor-like application,
    but <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16110> fills in the
    gap
  
  Some other things
  - If you want to get rid of those annoying
    message boxes when something goes wrong in
    a Windows applications (do you ever send a 
    report to MicroSoft?), then follow this
    link: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16103>
  
  - A bit of history: do you remember how you 
    learned of Tcl/Tk? Plenty of people do
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15972>
  

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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