Version 29 of John Ousterhout

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John Ousterhout is the original author of Tcl and Tk.

See Also

History of Tcl

by John

Wikipedia

homepage at Stanford

Ousterhout's Dichotomy

John's observation, made in 1998, that a fundamental shift from systems languages to scripting languages was occurring

Other Work

Sprite

an operating system

Log-structured File System

Magic VLSI

a venerable VLSI layout tool that influenced the development of Tcl

Magic VLSI Layout Tool

Perspecta

Founded in 1992, produced Perspecta Presents a tool for creating and displaying presentations

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Quotes

"The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state"

anyone have a source for this?

History

http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/

previous location (2001) of Ousterhout's homepage

Lightning Fast Builds for Embedded Software Developers

was a webinar about Electric Cloud's make acceleration software that took place on 2004-10-06. It may still be available behind the register wall.

Resources

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Tcl

an interview between John and Kathryn Edwards, Computerworld, 2009-05-08

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