Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  " ... [O]ne of the key 'innovations' of TclOO over previous OO
systems is that it has a generalized system for method implementations
so methods of different types aren't hacks." - Donal K. Fellows


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  The new year well on its way, and so is the Wiki ...
  
  Some tutorials       
  - A thorough revision of the tutorial on building starkits -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10558>
  
  - Getting started with Tcl and C#, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9563>,
    but if you are serious about the combination, don't forget
    about Eagle (<http://wiki.tcl.tk/6580>)
  
  - A promising start of a tutorial on Wub - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25540>
  
  - Here is a not-so-trivial example of TclOO's features: tracing
    calls to the various procedures - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25520>
  
  Off the beaten track
  - Swank is Jacl's way of dealing with Swing, Java widgets.
    Some nice results on an equivalent for the canvas in
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25470> and other such pages.
  
  - Whatever becomes of it, if you want to work with Android,
    the software for mobile phones, not the GUI testing extension,
    this page has some interesting information:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20310>
  
  - Have it your way: a dialect of Scheme (or should that be LISP?)
    implemented in Tcl. Anyway: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25512> for
    yet another demonstration of Tcl's beloved flexibility and
    power.
  
  Don't let maths scare you
  - Mathematics is fun - even seemingly simple things can have
    surprising features! Draw a gingerbread man and create 
    some order in the chaos - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25558>
  
  - Testing whether a number is prime requires some ingenuity.
    At least when you want to make the test fast and practical.
    Here is the Miller-Rabin method in Tcl - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5996>
  
  Only human
  - The venerable Tcl Advocacy page has been updated with a reference 
    to an interesting blog ... Someone who was surprised about 
    Tcl's capabilities - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/590> - and by
    the comments, apparently not the only one.
    

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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