QOTW:  "There are a lot more digits in the world than just 0 ... 9" - Arjen
Markus, showing the cross-cultural awareness typical of top Tcl practitioners

"Not all bugs are susceptible to easy automated hunting" - Donal K. Fellows,
in yet another corollary of the Halting Theorem


    TDBC continues its advance:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6230aa451c497d5f/

    While messageBox seems to have at least a couple of long-standing 
    difficulties, their resolution isn't at hand yet:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f9a4c5993194e593/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Let me first wish you all a happy new year - may the Wiki and Tcl
  in general prosper at least as well as in 2008!
  
  Concerning Tcl
  - Work on the new version of Itcl is well on its way with a beta
    version last year. If you are curious about Itk, then do read
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22167>.
  
  - We all know that Tcl keeps its values in Tcl_Objs, right? 
    And that is all on the C side of things. Up to now! "scrobj"
    makes it possible to go full circle and access the Tcl_Objs
    from the Tcl side. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22175>
  
  - Growing concern over te apparent trend to use Tcl as "merely"
    a prototyping tool. Is Puppy Linux an example of such a trend?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11951>
  
  - Keep them coming, those references to Tcl articles. The more
    the better! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1016>
  
  Concerning graphics
  - Yet another wonderful demo from the 3D side of graphics:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
  
  - One place to go if you want to learn about designing 
    user-interface (with Tcl/Tk) - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14074>
  
  Views on programming
  - Want to make several processes (programs) work together?
    Then you will need some form of inter-process communication ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1228> concentrates all the wisdom.
    (And your chronicler found a page there he had completely forgotten)
  
  - The Model-View-Controller paradigm in a very practical setting.
    See it demonstrated in this hydrological application:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22164>
  
  - Or perhaps you are more charmed by context-oriented programming?
    Well, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22161> illustrates that!
  
  - Of course, we can not do without frameworks. Here is one by 
    your truly ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22159>


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

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