QOTW:  "... development on Pocket PC is a pleasure with eTcl!" - Pascal G.

"Anyway, my take on this is the same as always: for me, the core is Fast
Enough as it is, but it's Too Complicated.  I'd rather see clarity
optimizations than speed/space ones." - Joe English


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action, and my
apologies for the long delay in passing it on:
  Time for another Wiki summary - let us just start.
  
  User experiences
  - Tcl module mechanism, new in Tcl 8.5, has a few properties that 
    may be difficult to use in certain environments. But otherwise,
    it is great. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12999>
  
  - It is always fun to fool around with the language itself. If,
    like in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15422>, performance is much less
    of an issue than you would think at first, it is even more fun!
  
  - Eclipse support for Tcl may be tough to track down, but it is
    there: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19664> tells a few stories.
  
  Experienced users
  - One of those things everybody can build, but it is nice to see
    a full-featured version: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19724> lets you
    run programs from a common window. 
  
  - As telecommunication is everything nowadays, let us see how 
    Tcl can be employed: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11789> is but a single
    page on the subject.
  
  - Not everybody may be able to build their own window manager,
    but everybody can have a look at the results of someone who
    can: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13972>
  
  - Though few people may be able to put a nice idea into 
    elegant and short code, everybody can enjoy the results:
    - Line numbers in a text widget? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19724>
    - Parse an expression like "1+2*3" (without minding the 
      details)? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20904>
  
  - A whole different ball game is the effective implementation
    of continuations ... To appreciate the concept as well as 
    the latest implementation, see <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13232>
    and its links


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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