Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 26)

QOTW:  "I feel like I have to transform all socket code I've ever written in
Tcl to using coroutines." - Reinhard Max


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  The Recent Changes page on the Wiki is swamped by the diligent
  activities of our wikignomes, but they often bring up almost
  forgotten pages!
  
  Pictures ...
  - Signal processing is a world of its own, with a touch of Tcl
    if you look for the right package - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12097>
  
  - Integrated development environments ... everybody wants them,
    at least some of the time. Here is one concentrating on making
    Tk GUIs even easier: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27684>
  
  - And games! We all want to play games on our computers, don't we?
    The only problem is understanding the rules. Oh well, you
    can always play a hand of poker: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8987>
  
  - Just a little fun with TclOO, just learning to deal with
    the API, just a few dots moving on the screen ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27662>
  
  Words ...
  - Programming paradigms come in many, many flavours. You will
    almost always find zealots for any one kind. Lucky for us.
    our Tcl/Tk community likes to experiment, so we don't favour
    the one far above the other - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13970>
  
  - Pesky little things, (mathematical) expressions. They look
    so easy and are so tricky to analyse! Here is a page to
    help you control them: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15512>
  
  - Talking of experiments, how about this proof of concept
    to make procedures as short-lived as any variable?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11272>
  

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 
    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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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