'''Holger Jakobs''' - 
mailto:holger@jakobs.com, see also http://www.jakobs.com and http://plausibolo.de
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I live in Bergisch Gladbach http://www.bergischgladbach.de close to Köln http://www.koeln.de
in Germany teaching several IT related subjects. Up to September 2013 full-time at b.i.b. International College http://www.bg.bib.de, but since then as a freelancer. My business page (page only in German, but my profile is in English) is http://plausibolo.de

You find my new (as of 2015) Guard Tour System (based on Android phones with NFC and an app written in Java as well as a server and a desktop client written in Tcl/Tk) at http://plausibolo.de/wks.

I'm into
   * Tcl/Tk -- not into Perl or Python
   * LaTeX -- not into Word
   * PostgreSQL -- not into MySQL
   * Linux -- not into Windows
   * LibreOffice -- not into M$ Office
   * Fossil -- not into Git
because I prefer the '''smarter solutions'''.

Most of my programming I do with Tcl/Tk, because I believe it is the easiest way to
getting things done.

What I would like to have in Tcl/Tk is better support for sorting Unicode according 
to language-dependent rules instead of following the numerical order of the glyphs.
see [lsort] and http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/

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Of course I have tried lots of programming languages:
   * Basic (Wang, Commodore, Simon's Basic) - it's been a long time!
   * FORTRAN - had to!
   * COBOL - had to, luckily only a little!
   * Pascal (Turbo, Professional) - its time is really over!
   * Modula-2 (JPI) - was my favourite for years! Took me some time to equip it with the 'widgets' (in text mode, of course) I needed. Was not very useful with Windows, only DOS.
   * C - took me quite some time to get used to what it all lacks. As a Modula-2-Programmer you are used to a more structured work. It's a pity that Modula-2 lost and C won.
   * C++ - at least some good ideas of Modula-2 came back here. Still too complicated building cross-platform GUIs. Maybe I'll try wxwidgets one day. Great as a language for jobs where no GUI is needed. Has improved a lot since C++11.
   * Realizer - was once a competitor of MS Visual Basic by Computer Associates. Not very good.
   * Tcl/Tk - the best and most complete kit of useful things I ever discovered
   * Java - is just too complicated, too deeply nested object hierarchy, although lots of useful classes. I use it for developing native Android apps.
   * JavaScripts - only for very little programming of Web pages, has improved a lot and has some good ideas, but JSON is still far more complex than Tcl's dict without delivering more.
   * PHP - only for two little jobs with MySQL (shudder!!) where nothing else was available


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