09/08/2008
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QOTW:  "Coroutine resuming is faster than proc calling." - Miguel Sofer

"There's no locale like C." - Richard Suchenwirth


    There certainly was a spirited discussion of Tcl's generation;
    did it reach conclusions?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/319ae3ee89c81fd8

    Many important announcements occurrred during the week, including
    assets for OS X and Alexos Stergiakis' explosion of functionality for
    tcl-pam, tcl-snmptools, tcl-mmap, and many more:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=package&num=10&scoring=d&hl=en&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl*


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With the Wiki having gained a new service (see below), let us
  start the summary without further ado.
  
  Specific tools
  - While we all love Tcl/Tk for its platform-independence, should one
    always shy away from things that are _not_ platform-independent?
    <A HREF=wiki.tcl.tk/17742>wiki.tcl.tk/17742</A>
  
  - SYLK is one of those "other" spreadsheet programs. But the files
    it produces are much easier to manipulate than, say, MS Excel
    files. And MS Excel can import them ... <a 
href=wiki.tcl.tk/21551>wiki.tcl.tk/21551</A>
  
  - And the missing pieces for the above can be found in the "Half-Bakery"
    a sort of Wiki-like repository, now open for contributions - if
    they are suitably under-documented and unfinished, that is:
    <a href=wiki.tcl.tk/21550>wiki.tcl.tk/21550</A>
  
  Wishful thinking
  - The quest for the bounds of what Tcl can do continues: code 
    and data really become indistinguishable - <a 
href=wiki.tcl.tk/21556>wiki.tcl.tk/21556</A>
  
  - A simple wish for the canvas: transparancy. This and other topics
    at <a href=wiki.tcl.tk/1415>wiki.tcl.tk/1415. </A>
  
  - Tables are definitely the best way to display, well, tabular data.
    Here is another megawidget for dealing with such displays. And 
    do look at the linked site for other goodies. <a 
href=wiki.tcl.tk/5286>wiki.tcl.tk/5286</A>
  
  - One of the reasons your Wiki chronicler loves maths, is that it can lead
    to a sort of music for the eyes. <a 
href=wiki.tcl.tk/19671>wiki.tcl.tk/19671</A>
  
  - And here is a little application from yours truly. Not much documentation
    I am afraid, but it is an inspired one: <a 
href=wiki.tcl.tk/21580>wiki.tcl.tk/21580</A>


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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