QOTW:  "Quoting Hell should really be named Escaping Hell, but Orpheus
patented it first." - Alexandre Ferrieux
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/c2d0e2513dfa02fa


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  One might say: old Wiki pages never die - they surface every now and again.
  Let us visit them and the new pages ...
  
  Languages
  - A vivid discussion about Tcl and Python and how they differ or not:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13413> 
  
  - Here is another link to another programming language: a small package
    for parsing Lisp's S-EXPs - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24412> 
  
  Techniques
  - Comparing lists element by element is not a difficult task. The difficulty
    lies in defining what you mean for two elements to be the same!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24550> 
  
  - There are two ways to solve a classic problem like the "Eight Queens"
    problem: devise an automatic algorithm or engage a human agent. Here is
    an example of the latter approach: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24559> 
  
  - Generating PDF files via the pdf4tcl package is easy. One drawback
    of that package however is that you have to do some computations
    yourself. Luckily it is easy to wrap these computations - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24593> 
  
  - Now that we have Tile (or ttk), how do we manage customised themes?
    Here is a solution: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24595> 
  
  - Sometimes things in the outside world change and then we should follow.
    Or should we? Some remarks on the copy/paste behaviour of the text
    widget at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3771> 
  
  Packages and applications
  - gnocl is a package for using gtk+/gnome within Tcl. Beware though:
    you need to use it the gtk way, not look at it as another Tk. That 
    has consequences for the style of programming.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151> 
  
  - Tcl/Tk may be so easy to use that it does not require a full-blown
    IDE, but the reverse is true too: IDEs are "easy" to do in Tcl/Tk.
    See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5334>  for such an IDE.
  
  - Managing your files made easy and it is done in Tcl/Tk too:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14561> 
  
  - Digital signal processing is a sophisticated branch of engineering
    and there are many tools for designing and analysing systems that
    deal with such processing. Here is one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24598> 
  

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&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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