Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "[W]orrying about the performance of arg parsing when you're
going to call [exec] seems a bit premature."  -- Darren New

"[S]spaces are now the most ambiguous character in the whole UNICODE
table."  -- Arjen Markus (in, rather remarkably, the same thread)
    
"... I demonstrated my iPaq ..,. and a Catholic priest was quite amazed
how easy typing Hebrew went on the little box (with iKey,
http://mini.net/tcl/8490 )."  -- Richard Suchenwirth



POTW:  QuickTimeTcl binds Tcl to QuickTime libraries on Windows and MacOS X.
    http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/qt/


    'Want to QUADRUPLE the responsiveness of your Win*-hosted network
    server?  David Gravereaux knows how (although iocpsock.dll's home
    page certainly discloses no marketing flair).
	http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73356&release_id=156161

    Mac Cody's TclRFB continues to push the boundaries of what VNC
    can do.
	http://tclrfb.sourceforge.net/

    Freewrap, ProWrap, Tclwrap, ...--each has its own advantages
    and disadvantages.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=dede821d6ac969df

    Huge areas of software practice remain grossly underdocumented.
    Kevin Kenny hints at some of the riches folklore has accumulated,
    in this case concerning the aptness for optimization of different
    memory allocators.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=781be8db41986e1f


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

    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

    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

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/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/

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