QOTW:  "[I]t's almost always a mistake to change [encoding system]." - Donal K.
Fellows

"... for me it has always been simple: 'Three or more: Use a for.'  This is
why we have loops. This is why we are programmers." - Charles Petzold 
    http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html


    DLTK supports Itcl and XOTcl class browsing:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/eeb53e0f5f8f328e/
    There still are reasons to like RamDebugger, Komodo, Eclipse, Elvis, ...
	
    Jeff, Donal, and WavyDavy (among others) explain the hazards to Tcl
    when threads and forking come together:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/90781d253afae197/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  We have a large bunch of pages to cover, so, apart 
  from the best wishes for the New Year: let's start!
  
  What about Tcl 8.5?
  - Write down _your_ impressions of Tcl/Tk 8.5?
    <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/20541> is one personal account
  
  - Numerous things have changed, but the [expr] command
    has gained a few very nice features. See for instance
    <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/20279>
  
  - Finding and installing extensions should be even easier with 
    Teacup and Teapot: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17305>
  
  Graphics, not necessarily the 8.5 way
  - There are numerous widget sets besides Tk (and Ttk) that
    you can use: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1746>
  
  - The megaimage package is a fairly new way to handle images
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20112> teaches you how to use it.
  
  - This French page presents a little GUI around the UNIX/Linux
    tools find and grep, (the GUI is based on GRIDPLUS2) -
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1549>
  
  A computation or two
  - Fascinated by statistics? This page provides an overview
    of the statistical distributions you can find on the 
    Wiki: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20527>
  
  - Or do you prefer spreadsheets? Here's a nice page for
    you then: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20552>
  
  - And what would computing be without regular expressions?
    PCRE are one particular flavour of REs that some people
    like and others don't: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9384>
  
  - One of the underlying techniques for dealing with REs
    is that of deterministic finite-state machines. And
    that technique has its own Wiki page:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16276>
  
  People
  - Will the combination of signals for our two main senses 
    make it a better editor? It seems a nice idea, anyhow:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20585>
  
  - How do you develop? Is "test-driven development" your
    thing too? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13327>
  
  - Now there's a thought! A meeting of European Tclers 
    (or better still: a meeting of Tclers on European 
    soil) in France? Just one of the topics in this
    monthly summary: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1554>
  
  
  
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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