Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "Tcl never ceases to amaze me."  John Seal

"You would be suprised at how many people run these starpacked apps and have
no idea they are running Tcl/Tk!  I guess that is a sign it all works. ;'>"
                                       Tom Wilkason


POTW:  Tcl (and Tk) make PDAs into programming marvels.  Mark G. Saye 
details his progress with the Zaurus.
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/zaurus 


    Impressive and satisfying progress on Tcl (and Tclkit!)
    for WinCE is underway.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=58bc1e5da572ff4c

    George Peter Staplin demystifies oddities in Tk appearance
    that sometimes arise on Linux and other Unix hosts because
    of window-manager .Xdefaults subterfuge.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=3fa72312b944817c

    Jeffrey Hobbs pleasantly illustrates an instance of his
    "Pedantic lesson for the day: Do not code in Tcl as you
    would in C to get the best performance or best 'value'
    out of Tcl" with a discussion of pass-by-reference.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=5ac5c3b000040b67


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki activity:
  You just never know what a new week brings: 
  
  User documentation:
  - Tcl's simple syntax, so concisely described in the Eleven Rules,
    has been translated into French and Swedish last week, 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8932> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8942>.
  
  - Interested in tools for writing user documentation? Well,
    enter the discussion at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8948>
  
  - In need of a simple hypertext viewer? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1848>
  
  Graphics:
  - It started as a simple script and now it is turned into true
    viewer in its own right: 3D plots of a function of two independent
    variables - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8928>
  
  - If you want to do graphics, you will need to understand some maths.
    For instance: how can the hypot() function be used? It may be
    a small start, but it is a start, found at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1548>
  
  Miscellany:
  - A minimal debugging facility - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1151>
  
  - An almost classical question: how to find matching brackets, well
    it is not all that easy - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8785>
  
  - Apache develops the next generation of Tcl programming in their
    Internet servers. It is called Rivet, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3874>
  

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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