Version 6 of Cameron Laird

Updated 2002-09-10 17:52:52

I like to write the weekly {Tcl,Python,...}-URL! digests. It's recreational, for me.

I write [L1 ] also for more conventional publications. I've written chapters on Tcl [L2 ] and other scripting languages for several books, and do a column [L3 ] twice a month on scripting.

Along with this part-time journalism, I'm a full-time software developer [L4 ].


One of my characteristic habits is to threaten over an extended period to work on various community projects. Occasionally, with enough motivation, I actually follow through. On the possibility that one of these will interest someone, I'll list a few of the half-baked items currently on the shelves:

  • Lots of tcllib stuff--documentation, performance enhancements, examples, corrections to RFC non-conformance, ... Andreas Kupries: If you have time please add such information to the tcllib tracker at SourceForge [L5 ]. Or feed them piecemeal through me.
  • Memory introspection commands
  • Win-Tcl documentation
  • Greatly sanitized tcltest distributions
  • More Tcl/Java write-ups
  • Testing theory
  • Help with TinyTcl
  • Elaboration of George Peter Staplin's Tk-Xlib work (which I greatly admire)
  • Propaganda on why Tk is wonderful
  • ...
  • More explanations of the "resources database"
  • Write-ups of "Tcl in the real world"
  • Tclish expert systems
  • response to Larry Virden's observation that "this is part of the info that I keep harping about being needed for USERS of Tcl... most of the Tcl doc is written for application developers accustomed to code diving". package-ing is a particular example.
  • Tclkit evangelism
  • ...

Dave Snyderman claims I described myself as a "walking Wiki index". I don't remember that ...


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