QOTW:  "[I]t's simply unwise to ever believe that any non-trivial
multi-threaded application is deadlock free." - Matthew Sackman
    http://www.wellquite.org/shared_mutable_memory_must_die.html

"I haven't yet seen a regexp that saved my time before writing it, during
writing it or after writing it." - dour Kaitzschu


    Alexandre Ferrieux and Georgios Petasis, among others, exhibit
    dexterity in manipulating strings, with a range of dependence
    on the [regexp] engine:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a9e1feaa6c962be1/
    Notice how nicely this thread illustrates there will always be
    a market for programmers, where "programmer" is understood to 
    mean not, "code-monkey", but, "someone with the ability to de-
    tect and resolve ambiguitities in conventional human discourse".

    Alex also compares Tcl's dictionaries and associative arrays:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2bf9f3fce920415e/

    George and others give lessons in Teacup use--that is, in use
    of standard extensions with the latest Tcl release:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d267bac27fad2a76/

    Please be aware that [regsub] is NOT a universal solution; at 
    the same time, its effectiveness sometimes is multiplied when
    it's teamed with other techniques:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/58ae9e80a7b8f934
	http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9884/ur0509m/


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Again a week has passed, time for a summary of what happened on the Wiki:
  
  Only too human
  - Ever wondered about the number systems of other peoples and cultures?
    Here is a library that might interest you: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17692> 
  
  - Just go and build in a spellchecker in your application. This
    page should help out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17380> 
  
  - And just to stress that Tcl can be used for other things than
    serious applications: <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/10356>  for translations
    to Pig Latin.
  
  - Sometimes you just need the information on the Wiki as such,
    without a need to be online. Download a static database then:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20412> 
  
  Typical stuff
  - Getting notified of changes to files in a directory - that 
    can be quite useful. Try: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3643>  and the
    pages it links to.
  
  - The Wiki has a long tradition of Tcl mimicking another 
    language or system - the Bourne shell is one such other system:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2932> 
  
  - And last but not least: yet another 3D demo. Check out
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> 
  

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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