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QOTW:  "La cha\xeene vide est la valeur moins lourde." - Kevin Kenny


    Donal explains dict aspects:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9bc66988...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  July is nearing its end, deadlines are passing ... Let
  the summary begin!
  
  Packages
  - Here are a few nice utilities for dealing with images:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6304>
  
  - An interface to a C++ library for dealing with images
    in all manner of formats: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24014>
  
  - Talking of C++, here is an extension that deals with
    C++ objects: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24024>
  
  - And then you may want to tunr your Tcl code into C code.
    For various reasons: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17385>
  
  Demonstrations
  - Using TclOO in a not-so-trivial context: a classic
    data structure like trees can be implemented via TclOO,
    but some questions remain unanswered, such as 
    performance ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23893>
  
  - The countdown program is a golden oldie ... All has been 
    said about it, it would seem. But Tcl 8.6 puts a new twist 
    to it with coroutines: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/946>
    
  - Programming problems can often be solved in different ways.
    But the performance of various solutions is impossible
    to estimate: measure it, is the only advice!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24018>
  
  People stuff
  - Here is some documentation on Metakit: well worth reading
    if you are looking for a simple to use data storage facility:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24022>
  
  - And here are some job openings: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13259>
    has a recent one at the bottom.
  
  - Should the scale widget be revised? Any solution for the
    problem described at the end of <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14628>?
  

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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