[http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/Photo2008Small.jpg] '''John''' '''Ousterhout''' is the original author of [Tcl] and [Tk]. ** See Also ** [History of Tcl and Tk]: 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 ** Writing ** [http://wfr.tcl.tk/fichiers/images/dummymed.jpg] [BOOK Tcl and the Tk Toolkit]: [http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html%|%Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century]: IEEE Computer Magazine, 1998-03. The article that layed out [Ousterhout's Dichotomy] [An Overview of Tcl and Tk]: [Writing Tcl-Based Applications in C]: based on John's powerpoint tutorials [Building User Interfaces with Tcl and Tk]: based on John's powerpoint tutorials [An Introduction to Tcl Scripting]: based on John's powerpoint tutorials [ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z%|%postscript versions of John's powerpoint tutorials]: [http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/a-radical-proposal-replace-hard-disks-with-dram%|%A Radical Proposal: Replace Hard Disks with DRAM], 2015-10-26: BOOK A Philosophy of Software Design ** Quotes ** "The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state": anyone have a source for this? http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php ** 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 <> Person