John 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout]. John also authored the [BOOK Tcl and the Tk Toolkit]. [http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/dummymed.jpg] 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 [http://www.eet.com/netseminar.html] or directly to the registration at [http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=8690&s=1&k=D83AF89CB44A22B8864177BB53FEA30F] [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"? Seems so: http://www.google.com/search?hs=211&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=ousterhout+The+best+performance+improvement+is+the+transition+from+the+nonworking+state+to+the+working+state&btnG=Search ---- JO has made several other notable contributions, including Sprite and lfs [http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/lfs.html]. [Tk] itself is remarkable. ---- Interview with John during 2009 [http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/301772/a-z_programming_languages_tcl] ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Person] | [Category Home Page] |% !!!!!!