Version 10 of Alan Collins

Updated 2020-12-14 01:01:12 by aec

I work for San Diego State University in Business Information Systems. My previous position was with Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), as a Consultant/Programmer/analyst.

I have been using TCL/TK for personal use since 1995, heavily the last 6 or seven years. I was interested in developing editors and tools for software development for my own use.

I may occasionally be seen listening in the chat area as AEC.

I'll post more here as time permits.


After 5 years of retirement I have decided I have time to describe my style and method of developing with Tcl.

My development environment consists of a modified version of eZdit as my ide. Within eZdit I use a recent version of tclkit as my runtime for testing.

I usually develop my applications as starpacks. In my main.tcl, especially during development, I source a custom kitten which contains every package I have developed, also those available from Activestate or found on this wiki that I have found useful in the past. When I create the final starpack I will either place the needed packages in the lib directory of the starpack or create a new custom kitten to be sourced by the application.

My apps and packages are usually developed as namespace ensembles.

More later