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 funky 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]
   * [Finding duplicate files]
   * [Interfacing Windows Search]
   * [A Simple Wiki with Outlook backend]


'''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

'''Autoexpansion of leading word'''

Until I find a better sport to put this, the following patch will change Tcl so it will autoexpand leading words.


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diff --git a/tcl/generic/tclParse.c b/tcl/generic/tclParse.c
index b06b106..02b126f 100644
--- a/tcl/generic/tclParse.c
+++ b/tcl/generic/tclParse.c
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ Tcl_ParseCommand(
     const char *termPtr;        /* Set by Tcl_ParseBraces/QuotedString to
                                  * point to char after terminating one. */
     int scanned;
+    int expandWord;
+    int firstWord;
 
     if ((start == NULL) && (numBytes != 0)) {
         if (interp != NULL) {
@@ -307,8 +309,14 @@ Tcl_ParseCommand(
      */
 
     parsePtr->commandStart = src;
+    firstWord = 1;
     while (1) {
-        int expandWord = 0;
+        if (firstWord) {
+           expandWord = 1;
+           firstWord = 0;
+        } else {
+           expandWord = 0;
+        }
 
         /*
          * Create the token for the word.
diff --git a/tcl/library/clock.tcl b/tcl/library/clock.tcl
index 7411fd6..6d1bb7a 100644
--- a/tcl/library/clock.tcl
+++ b/tcl/library/clock.tcl
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ proc ::tcl::clock::format { args } {
             [ParseClockFormatFormat $procName $format $locale]
     }
     
-    return [$procName $clockval $timezone]
+    return [[list $procName] $clockval $timezone]
 }
 
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