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QOTW:  "I write eggdrop scripts using namespaces, like real men do." - Bilge


    Ashok mentions measured experience with speedup due to wiser VFSing
    in Starpack construction:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/03cf5de5...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With the northern hemisphere's summer approaching the GSoC projects
  are attracting attention on the Wiki ... A new flavour of regular
  expressions anyone? 
  
  Wiki pros and cons
  - A new feature has been added to the Wiki: you can add comments to
    a page. See: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19613>
  
  - Has the Wiki lost its innocence? Not everyone agrees - check the
    debate at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23759>
  
  - Here is a discussion on the methodology one can use for 
    creating Tcl/Tk applications - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23752>
  
  Things TclX'ish
  - A whole set of pages devoted to TclX commands. Starting with
    the apropos command - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2066>
    (http://wiki.tcl.tk/207> for an overview)
  
  - Interested in the future of these commands or the package as 
    a whole? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11563>
  
  Some tools
  - The clock command is rather forgiving with respect to invalid
    dates and times. But validation is not that hard, when you 
    script it: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23761>
  
  - Processes under Linux reveal their numerical properties:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23770>
  
  - Cleaning up the regular expressions engine is a project that
    few may dare to take on ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23194>
  
  - How to use the trace command for a debugging facility?
    Well, a lot is explained at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23688>
  

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, keeps info to 
    onvince 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.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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