Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "Tcl is a language where you don't look at the manual very often, if
all!" - Ashok P. Nadkarni, on recognizing that he'd coded for years without
realizing that [] groups a *script*


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Winter time in Europe - the dark days before Christmas, but also 
  bright skies and the murmurings that we will be able to skate this
  weekend ... Oops, sorry, that is a genetic burden all Dutch are
  victim of. Anyway, the Wiki!
  
  The Wiki and documents in general
  - Read the announcements at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19613>, as our
    beloved Wiki has gained quite a few capabilities wrt formatting
    the pages.
  
  - docextract is a little tool that you can use to extract
    documentation (somewhat specially formatted comments) from
    your source code. See: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25378>
  
  - Your Wiki chronicler is slowly but steadily creating a 
    booklet for non-programmers (kids for instance) who want 
    to learn to program. Just one of the many efforts in that
    area - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9058>
  
  - Make your computer read text out loud ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6252>
    presents some possibilities.
  
  Some graphics
  - The canvas is getting a Jacl counterpart. Ideas welcome at
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25389> (be sure to look at the nice
    screenshot)
  
  - Laying out widgets in a tree-like fashion via Gnocl. The
    code is simple and the screenshot attractive.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25383>
  
  - Picking an HTML page apart and showing its structure ...
    Again a tree: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25371> and what a nice
    reuse of existing code.
  
  - The Mac is known for its different style of user-interfaces. 
    That is both laudable and a nuisance, as it forces programmers
    to learn that different approach. Luckily there is now a
    whole bunch of little tools that make it easier to adjust -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25367> for instance.
  
  - And to conclude, an elegant little tool for creating
    simple cartoons with surprising aspects, like a rotating
    head in 3D - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22392>
    

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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&...

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