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QOTW:  "[upvar #1] will become quite popular too if coroutines take off." 
"With coroutines, I predict that [upvar #1] will also become popular." -
Miguel Sofer and Kevin Kenny, in nominally disjoint conversations


    Behold:  TkCocoa is among you:
	http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom.cgi/2009/03/07#tk-coco...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With spring firmly in the air - or at least the meteorological
  calendar for the northern hemisphere, let us begin by this
  reference to a page collecting Tcl/Tk GUIs: 

http://www.subdude-site.com/WebPages_Local/RefInfo/Comput...
  
  GUI stuff from the Wiki
  - In a more conventional spot: the announcement of a Gtk-based Tcl shell
     - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22110>. The screenshot is cute :)
  
  - Scrolling multiple widgets in sync is quite doable, as shown
     in this page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9254>
  
  - Quite often it is easy to adapt an existing widget to your
     needs, like this checkbox that takes only logical (boolean) values -
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22702>
  
  Interfaces to packages
  - Need to deal with PDF files from Tcl? This page collects a lot of
     wisdom: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2375>
  
  - You never know what Bayesian networks you may encounter, but be
     assured that this interface will let you deal with (some of) them
     efficiently: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19881>
  
  - Build scripts seem to get more and more complicated. Here is
     a package to examine Ant build scripts - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22630>
  
  - Bernoulli is the affectionate name for a package that lets you deal
     with ordinary differential equations via a GUI or a small set of
     easy commands. You can even chose if it should be Tcl-only. Check
     out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22631> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22639>.
  
  For humans only
  - Here is a typical example of using Expect to make your computers
     do what needs to be done: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22702>
  
  - Lots of documentation now available for NaviServer. Check for
     instance <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22686>
  
  - The Tcl Association has entered the publishing business:
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22641> - in a limited way


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&...

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

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