Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "There are *no* keywords, and *no* special parsing rules.
At all.  Ever."  Donal K. Fellows

"[O]ne can never read too many manpages ;-)."  Richard Suchenwirth

"I found Tcl to be simple to get into with the potential to meet
complex needs as I grow with it.  I have similar feelings towards
the Tcl'ers Wiki since I've been nudged into contributing a little."
Mike Tuxford


POTW:  "Aegis is a transaction-based software configuration
management system ... first released in 1991."   http://aegis.sf.net


    BitKeeper is a younger but far more controversial Tcl-based
    rival to Aegis.
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/bitkeeper

    Clif Flynt will present two talks on Tcl at FOSDEM in Europe
    on Feb 9, 2003.  
        http://www.fosdem.org/index/schedule             

    Bryan Oakley gives a cute few-line toy which illustrates Tk's
    ability to manipulate font size, or, more generally, any
    taggable attribute.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=25eed255aaae95d3

    Friends don't let friends type-check.  Not Alex Martelli's,
    anyway; he explains why it's no shame that Tcl doesn't check
    types, as conventionally understood.  Note the immediate
    follow-up for an OO counter-argument.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=D95Z9.118884%24AA2.5074168%40news2.tin.it


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    As usual, the selection is somewhat arbitrary, but it is impossible
    to do justice to every page on the Wiki. So, here is the selection
    for last week:
    
    - A curses-based version of tkchat: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8285>
    - An old puzzle: count the triangles, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8280>
    - Play the music of your choice and keep track of your collection
      at the same time, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4074>
    - Wondering about encryption? Well, this page descibres one 
      approach, known as DES, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8196>
    - Wondering about SOAP and RPC? check out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1753> for
      the latest news on TclSOAP.
    
    And here are pages that are more technical:
    
    - Wrapping external commands, Tcl's famous gluing ability:
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8282>
    - Generating events without the help of Tk? It is quite possible,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8235>
    - Need a debugging window? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3504> provides a 
      cute little script.
    
  
Everything 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

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor 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

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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