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QOTW:  "Tcl: The Convenient Language." - Will Duquette


    Miguel accelerates uplevel:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/3d4c585b...

    Oh, to have been in Strasbourg for EuroTcl 2008:
	http://www.eurotcl.org/index.html

    Don't miss Mark Roseman's tutorial on Ttk styling:
	http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html

    An xterm in Tk?  Is there a need?  G. P. Staplin certainly
    has the ability:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/1055125e...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Some of the topics of last week continue to be of interest.
  So let's have a look
  
  Sounds and noise 
  - If you are interested in speech analysis and the like do
    check out the Emu system: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6618>
  
  - An interesting observation regarding generating random
    numbers: does shuffling improve the properties of a random
    number sequence? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1551>
  
  Pictures 
  - The shape extension allows you to do very cute things.
    It is implemented in eTcl, so for a French clock on your
    mobile phone: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1626>
  
  - Tile or Tk's themed widgets can be used to create a nice
    table widget - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20930>
  
  - Yet another 3D demo: the picture on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> 
    looks rather impressive!
  
  Data
  - A web server plus database server - accessible via Tcl ...
    More information on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2090> and 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21151>
  
  - We all love benchmarks, don't we? Here is your chance to
    contribute: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21163>. But take the advice
    in consideration of reading the article mentioned at the end.
    that might come in handy: the interface to an SQL database
    connected tot


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

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

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