QOTW:  "['Twould be nice to] make Tk correctly adapt when user changes system
colors and/or color depth; the last is a big stinker, especially since Tk
really gets borked when you change color depth, and that's more common on
Windows nowadays because of Windows Remote Desktop is more common (built
into XP) and has this behavior forced in (to save bandwidth)." - Jeff Hobbs

"[W]e know the real risks are the endpoints." - Bruce Schneier
    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/security_in_ten.html


Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  As we near the end of the year, there is a revived interest
  in calendars. But also in variations on the basic Tcl language.
  And ... Oh well, let us just begin the summary!
  
  Diversions
  - Can you get rid of all the keywords and reduce the notational
    aspects even further than in Tcl? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16965>
    certainly tries to.
  
  - Convert a Tcl-like language into C? Well, do the parsing in Tcl
    and see what results ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20410>
  
  - Tcl has no overloading of procedures. Or does it? Just a 
    few lines of code suffice to make procedures with the same
    name but differing in body and the number (!) of arguments.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20409>
  
  Computations
  - Simple formulae turned into useful procedures:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20367>
  
  - Spreadsheets anyone? They come in a wide variety as
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20386> demonstrate.
  
  - Here is a tool for supporting the so-called Greenhouse Development
    Rights framework. Yes: climate change and how to take measures 
    against it. Have a look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20401> 
  
  Calendars 
  - Is the iCalendar specification is or is not supported via Tcl
    applications? There used to be "ical" but its status is 
    uncertain. And there are certainly other tools...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11943>
  
  - Calendars certainly are supported as widgets. But maybe they
    lack flexibility in the way of internationalisation?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2275>
  
  Two tools
  - Synchronise two directories ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20387>
  
  - Or compare them ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20388>
  
  
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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    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/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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