Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 25)

QOTW:  "Tcl 8.6 is basically 'stackless Tcl' ..." - Donal K. Fellows


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Sometimes real life is very demanding ... but now the time has come
  to pick up the Wiki summary again.
  
  Only human     
  - Several ways to wasting computer time in an elegant way -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19630>
  
  - Badly formed HTML code may confuse tDOM, but with a little
    help from other packages, not all is lost - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25930>
  
  - Project ideas for Google's summer of Code, anyone? Now is the time
    to write them down. - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23186>
  
  - Can you keep track of the capitalisation of your procedure names?
    With this little trick, there is no need to - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25921>
  
  - Manipulating tabulated information made easy: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25882>
  
  Maths
  - Handling mathematical expressions is a piece of cake for the [infix]
    package - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17040>. And a more or less practical
    use can be found at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25919>
  
  - While we are at it, special functions by the dozens - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25901>
  
  - Setting up expert systems requires a careful selection of the rules.
    TclCLIPS may help here, giving access to the CLIPS engine.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3510>
  
  Make it visible
  - Rotating big images. You can do it quickly with C and painlessly
    with Tcl. Here is the combination: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25931>
  
  - Move a widget around - one part of an interactive GUI builder. 
    Not a few lines of code: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25888>
    

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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