QOTW:  "Divide and conquer!" - George Peter Staplin

"Miss Scan has never had a meeting with Mr. Regexp.  Neither
over the table nor under it." - Uwe Klein


    What will it take for Tcl to "get to the next level"?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8d5e75636600d348/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  This summary for some reason revolves mostly around Tk-related
  stuff. But there is plenty of other things, if you are not
  concerned with graphics.
  
  Just a few techniques
  - Run a particular script just before the end of your program?
    Try: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20639>  - tuned for Tcl 8.5
  
  - Want to find files fast? Why not try: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19762> 
    (If you know the running gag about Tcl's speed, you'll be in for 
    a surprise)
  
  - There is a full description of UNICODE characters avaiable on the 
    Internet with all the information you would ever need - and now
    there is also a convenient browser. See the end of 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4828> 
  
  - While within Tcl everything may be a string, not all strings are
    good enough for a data entry widget. Formatted input made easy
    at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20610> 
  
  - Combine a few Tk-related packages with Tcl's introspective 
    qualities and voila! A neat debugger is born: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13989> 
  
  Nothing new under the sun?
  - Bindings for the FLTK widget set - perhaps an interesting 
    alternative to Tk: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1826> 
  
  - Here is an extension to Tk's canvas widget with very promising
    features (the screenshots are simply delicious):
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14545> 
  
  - But perhaps all you need is a different decoration of your
    toplevel windows? No worry: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19773> 
    provides them.
  
  Penny for your thoughts
  - Tired of clicking all those links and dowloading those pages?
    Get yourself a webrobot - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20640> 
  
  - Tired of serious work? Here is a little playground to fool 
    around in: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20634> 
  
  - Can an ancient and almost forgotten version of Tcl really
    drive a game? How about a more modern version?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7416> 
  
  Only human
  - Witness the birth of a new category of program code:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20652> 
  
  - Is Cloverfield yet another answer to the cruel outside
    world that tends to ignore us? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20638> 
    Time will tell, but the discussion alone may be worthwhile.
  
  
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&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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