QOTW:  "[T]he purpose of a tutorial is not just to explain how things work,
but also to introduce people to the style and idioms that are typically
employed in that language." - Neil Madden

"There is NO PURPOSE IN CREATING WINDOWS TO MANAGE SOCKETS." - David Gravereaux


    The Second Edition of *Tcl and the Tk Toolkit*!
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5390ec5df350f1fc/

    Proper trees--such as our favorite daily example, the filesystem--have
    no loops.  Preservation of this integrity is no simple matter.  Learn
    how canonicalization can help:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cfc0ddebc7815f8a/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  New and inventive introductions are getting harder and harder. 
  Oh well, let's not beat around the bush. Here's the summary!
  
  Tangible stuff
  - The Wiki page is concise, but it is intriguing to be able 
    to control manufacturing machinery by a mere Tcl script ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5079>
  
  - Talking of controlling machinery, synthesizing speech and
    sound is just as intriguing: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6252>
  
  - Can we tap into the guts of the graphical card to do, say,
    fast Fourier transforms? Contribute to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21956>
  
  Visual stuff
  - Will it remain a dream? A desktop environment written in Tcl?
    A lot of pieces are already there, even a lean and mean
    implementation is available. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1928> and
    links therein.
  
  - Should we be using alternative widget sets? Like Fltk?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5114> discusses some of its merits.
  
  - Or perhaps Gtk as it has some interesting formatting 
    features ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21991> has some pretty 
    examples.
  
  - But it all boils down to being able to build a GUI, doesn't it?
    Here is an experiment with yet another approach -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21911>
  
  Some leftovers
  - However you build your GUI, keep in mind that notifications 
    and requests are two different things, requiring different
    approaches. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2267> explains.
  
  - With regular expressions you can do a lot of things. But 
    there are also things you can not do. At least not in one
    go. Or is your chronicler missing an obvious possibility?
    See the last problem at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21360>
  

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.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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