Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW: "Tcl has such an extensive library of packages that every time
I get a new contract and start designing the tool, I find that someone
else has already written over 50% of what I need to write and if I want
to use it in my test tool almost 100% of the time all that is required 
is a simple 'package require xxxxxx' and it's available to me."
     -- Anthony Davis

"I'm surprised, how many regular Tcl'ers have a wrong picture of Tcl 
and nevertheless can still write good code."
     -- Andreas Leitgeb


POTW: Pgtcl 1.4 by Brett Schwarz.
"This is the production release of Pgtcl 1.4, also known as libpgtcl, a
package that adds PostgreSQL extensions to the Tcl programming
language. Pgtcl 1.4 is a near complete rewrite to use Tcl-8 objects,
resulting in potentially huge performance increases."
    http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgtcl/projdisplay.php


    The numerous and compelling advantages of Tcl for automated
    testing are discussed in this thread:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f0b37114f3e8b557
    
    In all your getting, get understanding (Proverbs 4:7).  One thing
    you have to understand is that braces must balance within a word,
    unless they're escaped (Endekalogue 5):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=55a04b81eebb2e59
    
    Is it just because the [text] man page is so big, that people seem
    to have a hard time finding the basics of using the "sel" tag?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=dd60456bb836778b
    
    Most of us know to quote strings if we want [expr] to compare them,
    but the fact that recent versions of Tcl handle certain special bare
    words, such as "yes" and "no", might be misleading to newbies:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8d61c257533f943

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  Need to get started with Postgres or XML? If you can read French,
  then these two pages may be of interest to you:
  <http://wfr.tcl.tk/235> and <http://wfr.tcl.tk.239>
  
  There are more introductory pages, these are on the English Wiki:
  - Here is a page that focuses on the effect of namespaces on what
    variables and procedures you see: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6264>
  
  - Or viewing the call stack at any particular position in the 
    application: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10631> will print it.
  
  - And the last one, the character classes recognised by [string is],
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11829>
  
  Perhaps some lightweight mathematical subjects:
  - The famous chaos theory illustrated, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11887>
  
  - More math programs can be at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/951>
  
  The next pages are rather diverse in their subjects:
  - Tease is a text editing and scripting environment 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11893>
  
  - Speed can be an issue, things are not always that easy ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11885>
  
  - Controlling your audio equipment, well, the volume at least via
    the parallel port. Details at the Wiki: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11907>
    and note: there are more experiments of similar nature ...
  
  - An ongoing debate: how to market Tcl? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9644>
  
  
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

    The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    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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