Version 17 of John Ousterhout
Updated 2009-05-08 12:20:16 by LVJohn Ousterhout is the original force behind the award-winning Tcl and Tk development languages. See http://purl.org/tcl/home/scripting/tclHistory.html for John's recounting of Tcl's early days. (2001-05-14) JO's homepage is now at http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/ There is also a Wikipedia entry [L1 ]. John also authored the BOOK Tcl and the Tk Toolkit.
See An Overview of Tcl and Tk, Writing Tcl-Based Applications in C, Building User Interfaces with Tcl and Tk, and An Introduction to Tcl Scripting, which are based on a series of powerpoint slides John used for tutorials. The original slides, plus postscript versions, can be found at ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z .
TV Recently a webcast was made available about the activities of his electric cloud make acceleration software at "Lightning Fast Builds for Embedded Software Developers" at [L2 ] or directly to the registration at [L3 ]
Ro: Could you make the webcast available via http? The registration from the site you gave is giving me errors.
Is it true JO said, "The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state"?
JO has made several other notable contributions, including Sprite and lfs [L4 ]. Tk itself is remarkable.
Interview with John during 2009 [L5 ]