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QOTW:  ".If we were designing Tcl all over again, I might agree with you.
    But [list] has done all necessary quoting for [eval] at least since
    Tcl 6.4 ... A great many Tcl scripts depend on that behavior. Even
    though there are some asteroids that I'll gladly fling in Tcl 9, this
    is not one of them." - Kevin B Kenny on list family behavior

    "The problem with X is that it's overadequate."  Dennis Ritchie

    "Use the new stuff.  Life will be better." Jeff Hobbs    


POTW:  Tcl macro processing - Super glue for Tcl. 
    http://www.tclbuzz.com/v0/tmac


Threads on comp.lang.tcl
    Should regexp have a special flag just to say, 'skip the full match var'?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=c06bf92480d18261

    maurice ulis improves the Huge listbox with dynamic resizing and
    other new features.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=598bd60d39a00039

    Event-loop experts Kevin Penrose and David Gravereaux talk shop about
    injection of external events.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9e6b19e390d2ff3a


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his help with the review of Wiki activity.
This summary of the past week represents a small fraction of the new
material.
  Can Tk work with funny-shaped Windows?
      http://wiki.tcl.tk/shape

  Diff Wiki pages to see exactly what changed with
     http://pascal.scheffers.net/wikidiff/

  The bwise package offers an intriguing start with graphical and
  simulation programming
      http://mini.net/tcl/8565

  A cornucopia of screen shots of Tk under Windows.
      http://wiki.tcl.tk/8646
  Particularly recommended: "modelsim", reachable via
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8648>)

  - Bouncing balls, colliding balls--Tcler-s have taken to kinetic
    amusements, among which <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8656> is the latest.

  - Did you know [lsort] does a stable kind of sorting? It means that
    you can sort on any number of items, in steps - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/43>
    (and the discussion last week on the newsgroup)
  
  - All you want to know about debugging Tcl code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/473>
  
  - All you want to know about protecting your source code - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3698>
  
  - All you want to know about how everything in Tcl is something -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8667>
  
  - A small library for dealing with 3D vectors - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8615>
  
  - Ideas about database routines in pure Tcl - in-core databases -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8663>
  
  - Making Tcl call Fortran extensions? Yet another way to do it,
    this time: all you need is a Fortran compiler - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3359>
  

Everything 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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