AKA [JMN] I like programming in [TCL] and [Erlang] - preferably in the one project. I'm not the Julian Noble who does interesting stuff with [Forth] - but one day I hope to be *a* Julian Noble that does interesting stuff with Forth - It seems such a bizarrely mindbending language. I get frustrated by [GUI]s and applications that block while doing some background task, so I'm a big fan of [threads]. So much so that I think I'm sometimes guilty of using them where an [event]-driven, or multi-process structure may have been simpler. [John Ousterhout]'s: 'Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)' didn't sway me ;) I'm rabidly opposed to the [GPL]. I've not yet had the guts or inspiration (or organisation) to contribute much code to the [wiki] - but if/when I do - consider it public domain if not explicitly stated otherwise. (I tend to choose BSD style) [dictn] A little too late in the Tcl8.5 alpha era, I made a lot of noise over a reasonably short period on the tcl-core mailinglist regarding what I perceived as shortcoming of the new [dict] commandset. Basically I was arguing that what was really needed was a clean interface for nested operations. [DKF] explained that the dict syntax would be somewhat inconsistent with certain other commands if it was adjusted the way I suggested - and so I eventually shut up. I'm still a bit disappointed that what is really a great new datastructure for Tcl is so clumsy when it comes to manipulating nested data. Much unpacking & repacking required. Oh well - I guess the great OO debate will eventually provide what I'm after - though perhaps with more bells & whistles. [The ghosts of VB haunt this TCLer] [objectwalker] [overtype] ----- [[ [Category Home Page] | [Category Person] ]]