QOTW:  "[Tcl] also is capable of supporting stylish and elegant programming,
which programming snobs may not recognise, and allows the programmer to
concentrate on the shape of what is to be delivered rather than the hurdles
to be overcome in delivering it." - Steve Blinkhorn


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action, and my
apologies for the long delay in passing it on:
  The Wiki remains true to itself: a wide variety of 
  subjects as almost any week. So let us start ...
  
  Utilities
  - DTrace is a very powerful tracing facility. Available
    for various languages but of course for us the Tcl
    support is most interesting: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19923>
  
  - Making platform-independent development with Tcl even
    easier, this TIL library is a useful tool:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14619>. Note the discussion on that
    page - we tend to understate the importance of such tools.
  
  - When working on a small machine with eTcl, you may
    benefit from this "support" page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19642>
  
  Fun and functionality
  - Ever worked with gnocl? Here is a nice example of its use:
    a (basic) editor - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20241>
  
  - From a latinised representation of Chinese to the real thing ...
    UNICODE support keeps us amazed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14254>
  
  - SOAP - love it or hate it. But if you want to use it, there
    is sufficient support for use with Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1707>
  
  - Mangle your words and get something similar sounding but 
    nonsensical: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3620>
  
  - Play your MIDI files - here is a small library to do so:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20928>
  
  - And who does not want to know his/her place on Earth?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11109> solves that vexing question with UTM!
  
  - Graph algorithms are fun: this little library leverages the
    ::struct::graph package in Tcllib - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3716>


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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