Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 13)

QOTW:  "After years using Tcl I still get surprised how other languages'
features can easily be reproduced here." - silas


    Presentation proposals are all in; now it's time to
    register for the upcoming Tcl/Tk Conference:
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/

    Kevin Walzer shares the abundance of Mac-based virtue in which
    he dwells with his release of Tclapplescript 2.0 and 
    Cocoaprint 1.0, as well as 64-bit tclAE:
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=...

    Tcl made "A GPS Data Display" easy to write, according to
    Peter Hiscock:
	http://www.syscompdesign.com/AppNote.html#AppEd


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Today, incidentally "world left-handed people's day", and given the weather
  in his part of the world, a day that also marks a definite end to the
  summer, your chronicler picks up the Wiki summaries again ...
  
  Abundancy
  - Given the number of Tcl packages that deal with the problem,
    the communication between two programs on different machines
    keeps many people occupied - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1077>
  
  - Lovely those geological era ... And now there is this small program
    to put them all in their place - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26829>
  
  Ability
  - TclOO may be a bare-bones object-oriented part of Tcl, look
    at what things are possible, with just a bit of magic:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21595>
  
  - A program that learns? Yes, it is not that hard to 
    understand. This page contains the code and some sample
    sessions - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19894>
  
  Activity
  - Just a small experiment by yours truly, this program, but it
    was inspired by an article on SVG and JavaScript ... Have 
    a look at both - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26829>
  
  - A nice little drawing tool, nothing fancy, but you can 
    make pretty pictures ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15386>


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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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