QOTW:  "All of this said, I can't argue against the ease of use of [exec] and
similar facilities in Tcl.  I don't enjoy Tcl much myself, but that is
certainly one of its strengths." - Justin Sheehy
    http://markmail.org/message/7hakhpahq7netxo2#query:justin%20sheehy%20tcl%20exec+page:1+mid:7hakhpahq7netxo2+state:results


    Chris Nelson builds Scotty without tkined:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/3e86e5b5b4401613

    In a thread that illustrates a fraction of the insidiousness of 
    superficially-simple date calculations, Rob Sciuk shares true Julian
    dates with all other Tcl-ers:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ebba857930e1a27a/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With most of Europe under the influence of the European 
  football championship, we are lucky that the presentations
  of the European Tclers' Meeting are available on-line
  (see <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21074> and the official site).
  Cameron apologizes for publishing last week a mistyped URL
  for this page, and thanks the multiple keen-eyed readers who
  helped straighten out the confusion.

  Reading material
  - With an impressive number of online tutorials, anybody
    can learn Tcl or Tk, for that matter: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1304>
  
  - Need a scientific article that refers to Tcl? There are
    plenty: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21225>
  
  Nothing so ...
  - Controversial: should we or shouldn't we support "nulls"?
    The rationale of a heated debate: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17441>
  
  - Simple: the performance of simple implementations of an
    algorithm may be unexpectedly bad: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21214>
    but improvement is always possible.
  
  - Powerful: DTRace is a dynamic tracing infrastructure with some
    rather exciting properties. See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19923>
    and the accompanying papers.
  
  Making it work
  - Running a Tcl script is simple. Well, making it behave like
    an ordinary shell script requires some magic -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/812>
  
  - And the same is true for communicating with Windows COM
    objects, simple but it requires some magic. Luckily you
    have a few options - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1822>
  
  - CMake is one of those alternatives to autotools and here 
    is a nice example of building a Tcl extension with it.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21227>
  
  - If you have mastered C++ you may want to use it within the
    context of Tcl. So, why not use Critcl for that?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8403>
  
  


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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