Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "Folks who don't intimately understand what Turing Equivalence
(or the halting theorem) means shouldn't talk about it. :-)" - Darren New

"You can do anything in Lisp, as in Tcl, as on a Turing machine.  The
question only is how much fun it is.  [For] me, Tcl is most fun." - Richard
Suchenwirth


POTW:  The latest of many gifts from Emmanuel Frécon is his make library.
    http://www.sics.se/~emmanuel/?Code:make


    Bryan Oakley and others ruminate on The Printing Problem.
	  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki report:
  With a clear blue sky in sight it is easy to believe
  	it is almost spring ... Or is it the effect of 
  	global warming? None of that on the Wiki! Instead
  	a lot of attention for IDEs
  
  	Improving the text widget
  	- New bindings for an old widget ... There is 
  	  a trend in what users expect from a graphical interface 
  	  and this might modernise the text widget -
  	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17466>
  
  	- Another thing is that users like syntax highlighting
  	  when editing code. Well, here is another modernisation
  	  - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17457>
  
  	IDEs - who needs them? Many people!
  	- TclTalk aims to make it easy for inexperienced 
  	  programmers - <http:///wiki.tcl.tk/17395>
  
  	- Grimoire is meant for French-spoken programmers
  	  with a Mac - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17465>
  
  	- And Komodo has a lot going for itself too:
  	  nice debugging facilities and GUI building to name
  	  a few. The page could do with some snapshots, 
  	  but otherwise: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1958>
  
  	Looking at things
  	- Fancy a game, anyone? Yet another card game,
  	  but now the computer will play along -
  	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17461>
  
  	- Two displays present problems of their own:
  	  how to determine the arrangement on, say, Mac
  	  They can be next to each other, or on top ...
  	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17454>
  
  	- Applying programs to huge datasets may require
  	  64-bits computers - is Tcl really ready for that?
  	  This depends on your perspective -
  	  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17435>
  
  	- It is always fun to implement features of some
  	  language into Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17467> 
  	  for some Python experiments.
  
  	- And now everybody's (?) favourite: is Tcl's 
  	  syntax really that weird? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2401>
  
  
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

    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&...

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