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'''John''' '''Ousterhout''' is the original author of [Tcl] and [Tk].



** See Also **

   [http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html%|%History of Tcl]:   by John

   [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout%|%Wikipedia]:   

   [http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/home.php%|%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 **

   [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system)%|%Sprite]:   an operating system

   [http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/lfs.html%|%Log-structured File System]:   

   [Magic VLSI]:   a venerable [VLSI] layout tool that influenced the development of Tcl

   [http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/%|%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

   [https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=8690&sessionid=1&key=D83AF89CB44A22B8864177BB53FEA30F&sourcepage=register%|%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 **

   [http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/301772/a-z_programming_languages_tcl%|%The A-Z of Programming Languages:  Tcl]:   an interview between John and Kathryn Edwards, Computerworld, 2009-05-08




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