Real name Mark Janssen ([Tcl Chatroom] nick: mjanssen). I have been using Tcl since 2004 and I love it.

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There are several reasons I love Tcl:

   * It supports Unicode in code and GUI
   * The community is great
   * It is truly interactive: Open a console in your application and see what is really going on 
   * Tclkit or Starkit deployment is very, very convenient
   * It is very easy to install libraries without changing config files all over the place
   * The community is great
   * Very simple syntax and everything is a string: This allows for some funcky stuff like redefining proc
   * The C-API is one of the easiest of any of the ones I have seen (Perl, Python, Ruby) this makes it very easy to wrap C libraries. See for an example [readline]
   * The community is great
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'''Current projects'''
   * Embedding [tcc] in a Tcl extension. It can compile an example Tcl extension at the moment [tdom] and supports [VFS]

'''Pages I contributed to'''

   * [Alternative Namespaces]
   * [Tailing widget]
   * [Tcl Interface to WinPCAP]
   * [less]
   * [readline]
   * [Angles on a compass]
   * [exec quotes problem]
   * [SNMP parser]
   * [WBXML]
   * [tedit] - Tcl only text editor with Emacs like functionality (sort of). Bindtags are so cool.
   * [newexec]
   * [self] and my C-implementation at [SELF extension]
   * [scriptaculous]
   * [SOCKS proxy]
   * [XOTcl Objects as Tcl Commands with subcommands]
   * [Tuplespace]
   * [Event tutorial]
   * [Engineering Notation]
   * [Overridden commands] - restoring Tcl internal commands that have been overridden beyond your control
   * [Wizard]
   * [Retrieve file icon using the Win32 API]
   * [Scratchpad]
   * [NTLM]
   * [cal]
   * [chan mode]
   * [Extending chan] - Extending Tcl core commands implemented with [namespace ensemble]s
   * [Tcl in a hybrid of RealLife and More Equal Pigs]
   * [SCGI]
   * [Splitting an amount in parts]
   * [Retrieving movie information from IMDB]
   * [TkTreeCtrl]
   * [tcc] - and more specifically [tcltcc], a Tcl binding to [tcc] (hosted at [http://code.google.com/p/tcltcc/])
   * [tunnel]
   * [freezeconfig]
   * [Entering Unicode characters in a widget]


'''Random ideas I like to pursue'''

   * Everything will be compiled (so not only procs)
   * Image based Tcl ala [Smalltalk]
   * Fast OO ala [Self Extension]
   * Extensible parser allow {..}[...] to be extended from script level
   * Better [exec]
   * Faster [Tcl IO performance]

'''TODO'''

   * Tcl frontend to fossil db's
   * Caching in the [Self extension] using epoch counters

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Everything I post on the wiki is in the public domain unless explicitly marked otherwise. I would love to hear if some of it was useful to you though.

I keep several of the Tcl core CVS repos as an SVN repository at http://mjanssen.homeip.net/websvn (SVN checkout from http://mjanssen.homeip.net/svn/REPONAME) 

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