This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW: "[T]he learning curves for TclTk are the friendliest around."
-- Mike Tuxford

"Large, complete programs are written and successfully maintained in
Tcl, with Tcl as the primary language." -- Benjamin Riefenstahl


POTW: gnocl 0.5.12 by Peter G. Baum.  "gnocl is a GTK+ / Gnome
     extension for the programming language Tcl, loosely modeled
     after the Tk package.  It provides easy to use commands to
     build quickly GTK+ / Gnome compliant applications".
     http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/


     Does Tcl play well with others as far as sharing the clipboard?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=747f2bfeb121560c

     The secret to sourcing a file in a starkit is knowing that the
     starkit gets "replaced" by a directory of the same name:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a296bd2cf22febd2

     Every student of Tcl eventually faces $$varName.  Would you
     say that double substitution is the "pons asinorum" of Tcl?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9976a69fe693bf89

     The history of the app name=widget class "bug" is discussed:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=20dec741e5186ef2

     An inconclusive discussion of various aspects of making Tcl
     apps restartable by the window manager or session manager:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=23e5fb2571d48e6e

     A newbie is encouraged towards a wrapper/postprocessor GUI:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=71a20f3b2120d314

     Help getting tcltest to recognize equivalent sets of results:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=93aa347cb6767a5e

     Right-to-left: it's not just a good idea, it's in the Endekalogue!
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=eaa3fcd71cf3a7b8

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity:
  Games and riddles seem an endless source of inspiration:
  
  - The Eight Queens problem is revisited as an exercise in 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8838>
  
  - Want to play "Scrabble"? Well, all you need now is a pen and a piece of
    paper for the score and a computer running Tcl/Tk: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10098> has a cute little script for setting up
    the game board and displaying the letters.
  
  Another item that gets a lot of attention: plotting data, check out
  for yourself, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3743>
  
  Then there are a few pages of the technical and philosophical genre 
  that could inspire you to make simpler, better or more beautiful programs:
  
  - All about quoting issues in Tcl is described on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1726>
  
  - Though Tcl is almost as platform-independent as one could wish for,
    you do need to address platform issues from time to time. And what, may
    we ask, should be the name of that platform? May <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8522>
    enlighten you.
  
  - Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, yes, but more and more beholders
    appreciate anti-aliasing fonts. For your own experiments:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9015>
  
  - Finally, worthy advice coming from an entirely different language: Erlang 
    idioms translated or translatable to Tcl - <htt://wiki.tcl.tk/8966>
  

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

    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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