Sometimes I sign myself with MM.
I'm trying to become an electrical engineer, but it's a looong way. :(
I've first met TCL in 1996 (I think), when reading an introductory book on GNU/Linux: I was astonished by the easiness to create GUI with TK, and it made me forget for some year my wish to learn the C language.
I wrote my first script on a PC with RedHat Linux 4.0: it was a really ugly text editor, but since I wrote it using XEdit first and then with another editor related to the OLWM window manager (I can't remember the name), it looked wonderful to me. Then I learned how to use GNU/Emacs. :)
Now I'm a Debian user, but the PC is the same!
I'm really interested in programming TCL bindings to existing C libraries: I find useful to see how experienced programmers organise the API.
So here are my projects:
All of them should be usable: I've tried to write a comprehensive test suite. I've not done a real test to exclude memory leaks, though.
I'm slowly adding bits to a C library of containers: vector, list, map, tree, set, etc. I hope to make a TCL interface to it someday.
I'm also working at a couple of packages that are the battle fields for all my TCL programming ideas:
the "U" in both the acronyms stands for "Useless": there's no guarantee that the packages can be loaded in an interpreter without syntax errors.
All these packages and others can be downloaded from:
http://web.tiscali.it/marcomaggi/
my ISP does what he wants, so you have to turn on Javascript to reach the page. :(
The GNU Lesser General Public License is my favourite software license.
My ideas about programming have evolved through the last years. Once I was an OOP enthusiast, although I'm not expert of OO languages. I've tried my first C++ classes with Borland Turbo C 3.1. A lovely environment.
But lately I've changed my mind: more I write C stuff, more I find C "enough" for me.
I really like the style of C coding adopted in the TCL core source code. The lack of time (and skills) is keeping me away from trying to contribute to it. :(
I'm maintaining some pages here at the TCL Wiki:
If someone wants to email me, just take the SMTP hostname of my ISP, which is "tiscalinet.it", and join it with my mail username, which is "marcomaggi". Death to spammers.