Standards are not a straight-jacket - they are there to give you the freedom to forget the problem. The great thing about standards are ... there are so many to choose from! ---- NIST also maintains the Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures: [http://www.nist.gov/dads/] ---- NIST is also home to [Don Libes] (and [Expect]) and [Donald Porter]. ---- Well, "big", in some senses, at least. [NIST] [http://www.nist.gov/], as we most frequently think of it, employs both [Donald Porter], a current member of the [TCT], and [Don Libes], one of the most experienced Tcl programmers, and author of the first widely-used extension ([Expect]). ---- [Category Company]