Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "In short you need to stop attempting to have the program drive the
user and have the user drive the program.  This is true regardless of what
language you write the GUI in." - Gerald W. Lester on c.l.t
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/049c9e79...

"'Might be fun to play around with' seems like the primary motivation for
TAL."  "Well ... yeah.  You say that like it's a bad thing."  Joe English
and Colin McCormack
    http://wiki.tcl.tk/tal


POTW:
    ANNOUNCE: TclTalk by Thomas Braun
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    I proudly pour my latest project 'TclTalk' into the public domain, to
    give something back to the community.  TclTalk tries to follow concepts
    from common Smalltalk environments, some of which are 'workspaces',
    'browsers' and 'image based developing'.  To learn more about TclTalk,
    please visit tcltalk.ath.cx!
    Homepage:
	 http://tcltalk.ath.cx/


    HOWTO: Run JACL with the Eclipse Ide as an external tool.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    It's now possible to run JACL with the Eclipse IDE as an external tool.

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    Bug in TclKit encoding?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    foreach little friends
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Place and Place Forget
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    How do you install Tcl8.4 on Windows XP?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    BLT on OS X
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Activestate TCL Expect - EOF/Unexpected connection close spawn bug. Lets solve it.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TWIP: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
    What's major difference between tcl7.4 vs tcl8.0, and tk4.0 vs tk8.0?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    ANNOUNCE: 8.0a1 patch archive
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Tcl 8's expr: does anybody think it's acceptable?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    BLT Obsolete?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki report:
  What better way to start the first few weeks of the                             new year than by
discussing the flexibility of Tcl's
  syntax? Here is the excerpt!

        Syntactical topics
        - From almost forgotten days, the question about
          a BNF notation for Tcl pops up: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1643>

        - Tcl allows you to chain commands in whatever order
          you like, as witnessed by <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17419>

        - And if you like that page, read on: variations on the
          foreach command for your education and amusement (*)
          <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17444>

          (*) Clumsily translated from a Dutch expression.
              Anyone has a better solution?

        - The seemingly silly game "tcl-null" may be unique to
          Tcl: redefine the interpreter so that it only has a
          minimum of commands and is still useable ...
          <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16982>

        - How much can you say about nothing? A lot apparently,
          as this page shows: how do we use "null" in Tcl?
          <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17441>

        Network topics
        - If you know what Ajax means (in terms of the Internet),
          you may want to look at ?????jaks too - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17422>
          ... and if you do not know it, read about it at
          <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14556>

        - The possibilities of the virtual file system abilities
          of Tcl have not been exhausted yet. Here is another
          challenge: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17425>

        Publicity
        - The French Wiki has a page on Tcl articles that is
          well worth consulting, even if you are not proficient
          with French: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/479>

  
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/

    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
    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

    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.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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