mailto:[email protected] -- Legal name: Richard Suchenwirth-Bauersachs
Development engineer at Siemens Electrocom, Konstanz [L1 ], Germany (makers of Postal Automation Equipment: letter/flat/parcel sorters etc.: http://www.electrocom.de ), sitting in the same room with Ulf Jasper. Sorry, my real homepage is on our firewalled intranet, so I'm slightly verbose here.
Learnt programming on a Diehl Combitron S back in '73, but my first "real" machine was an IBM 1130 (boasting 32KB "core memory"; saving source code to disk was considered wasteful -- keep the punch cards instead..;-). Went from Univac 1108 to Pr1me 750 to PDP to VAX to Symbolics to Sun (plus TRS-80, Schneider Joyce, Atari ST, DOS/Win boxes). I write C when I have to, and Tcl when I feel like it (that's often).
Linguist at heart, so interested in (and pretty happy with) Tcl's styles as a programming language, and its support for natural (people's) languages (see discussion of Salt and Sugar, upvar sugar). One thing I like about Tcl is its Play-Doh-like flexibility -- designed to be strictly Polish (function/operator first, arguments after), you can still introduce infix notation (for assignment) or circumfix notation (for indexing) - see Radical Language Modification, Is Tcl Different!.
Frequent Tcl user both at work (OCR software on Sun/WinNT) and at home (frolicking in Tcl's Unicode and UTF-8 support for linguistic applications over the whole bandwidth of the now-withdrawn Bitstream Cyberbit font: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, plus some French and Icelandic thrown in ;-) and the introspection facilities that to my knowledge are second to none. -- Unicode file reader...
I am very proud of my daughters, Hannah (*1986) and Hanke (*1990). They both know well what a mouse-click is, and love to play tennis, and dogs. Hanke won 4th prize at the TC Nicolai Bambini tournament [L2 ] in Constance on Jul 24, 1999.
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... a good proc fits between thumb and middle finger... ... even O(N**N) may be ok, for sufficiently small N ... ... and "shimmering" is definitely not a four-letter word. (E.g. subcommands)