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'''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



** Video **

Google talk on software design philosophy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY]



** 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:   

   [https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ousterhout/dp/1732102201%|%A Philosophy of Software Design]:   



** Quotes **

*** From ''[http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php%|%My Favorite Sayings]'' ***

   * "The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working."
   * "Use your intuition to ask questions, not to answer them."
   * "The most important component of evolution is death."
   * "Facts precede concepts."
   * "If you don't know what the problem was, you haven't fixed it."
   * "If it hasn't been used, it doesn't work."
   * "The only thing worse than a problem that happens all the time is a problem that doesn't happen all the time."
   * "The three most powerful words for building credibility are 'I don't know'."
   * "Coherent systems are inherently unstable."



** 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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