Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW: "One of the reasons why Tcl does well is because it limits the number
of places where deeply non-obvious semantics occur." -- Donal K. Fellows

"I don't believe that anyone is proposing a new 'deployment police'
division to run around preventing people from doing anything they
wanted." -- lvirden@yahoo.com


POTW: Snit V0.93 by Will Duquette.
"Snit is a pure-Tcl object and megawidget framework."
     http://www.wjduquette.com/snit


     This discussion of using Tcl to access an Oracle database
     covers lots of issues, including whether threads are really
     needed or if event-driven processing is sufficient:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fe3548b155365b2d

     Why [wm transient .t .t] doesn't work anymore:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7b2f280a0cfe45ce

     CDE can make it hard to get the look you want for Tk:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8ef3bf2f27b022f9

     Need to parse a file full of words?  Why not let Tcl do it by
     [source]ing the file in a suitably prepared safe [interp]?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=743903af9f268ea4

     Iterating through a list to process every Nth item:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9adf155055c7e478

     Brother Gerald tries to save souls from "quoting hell":
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ea2806aaca39e869

     Converting event specifiers to "normal form":
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bc1b74991fabc606

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  A wide variety of subjects on the Wiki as usual, making the 
  task of your chronicler both difficult and interesting. So,
  let us begin!
  
  A few very old pages:
  - If you need a debugging aid for production code, this might
    be a starting point, but still better is the logger module 
    in Tcllib - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/587>
  
  - Do you need to identify which English words sound similar? There
    is one very famous algorithm and several less famous ones.
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/675>
  
  A few less old pages:
  - The Img package, although well-known, who does know all it 
    can do? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1404>
  
  - It is always intriguing, those little bytes of code that get
    executed in the interpreter, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1677>
  
  - Need a hand, dealing with files? Maybe someone has a ready made 
    solution for you ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2777>
  
  A few fairly new pages:
  - With all this talk of modules and TEA ... you may want to try
    and extend Tcl yourself. Here is an overview: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6276>
  
  - New to starpacks? Well, here are a few guidelines 
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8900>
  
  A few really new pages:
  - The category page "Functional programming" gathers a lot of pages
    dealing with that subject - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11330> and click
    on the title!
  
  - Yet another IDE, but devoted to Tcl, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11356>
  
  - Finally, this page is for want-to-be electronic/logic circuit gourmets:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11360> deals with digital adders ...
    

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

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    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

    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

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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