Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "Without a high quality RNG, seeding from the system entropy source
is a waste of time, effort, and good entropy bits." - Donal K. Fellows

"I think things that go BANG are an essential part of a healthy
childhood." - Colin Macleod


    Tcl syntax highlighting almost makes it to DocBook/xslthl:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/fb20cb84...

    ActiveState Code will replace the Cookbooks:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/0cde86e1...

    Jonathan Bromley wisely counsels the horde of newcomers rather 
    clouded about what VHDL and Tcl have to do with each (and what
    they do *not*):
	 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Goodness, has it been six years already? According to your chronicler's
  incomplete, inconsistent and inaccurate archive, yes, we started the
  Wiki summaries six years ago this week. But there is a more important
  anniversary coming up: in february 2009 the Wiki will be ten years old!
  
  Anyway, let us start the hebdomadary task!
  
  Watch it!
  - Do you have any large files around? This mega widget makes that
    clear: a small gem combining a set of packages - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21295>
  
  - Ever seen the whiteboard drawing tool of the Tclers' chat? Maybe
    it should be made more useable - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3955>
  
  Make it fit!
  - UML is a ubiquitous standard for designing a program, especially
    in the context of "object-oriented programming" - and of course
    there are Tcl tools to deal with it - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2261>
  
  - Talking of UML, here is a page on one particular "design pattern"
    - yes, object-orientation again - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21299>
  
  - One of the characteristics of our beloved Wiki is the many 
    experiments with tiny applications (measured as the amount of code)
    that nevertheless achieve grandiose things. Here is a C compiler
    which may not handle the entire C99 standard, but still:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21304>
  
  Money! Need I say more?
  - The (computer-)age-old problem of how to properly do arithmetic on 
    money: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1296>
  
  - And various ideas of how it can be done efficiently and accurately:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21305>
  

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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