Version 14 of Richard Suchenwirth

mailto:[email protected] -- RS -- Legal name: Richard Suchenwirth-Bauersachs

Development engineer at Siemens Dematic Postal Automation, Konstanz [L1 ], Germany (makers of Postal Automation Equipment: letter/flat/parcel sorters etc.: [L2 ] ). 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 - Basic in Tcl, Retrocomputing). 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!, Braintwisters, Playing Prolog, RPN in Tcl, Basic in Tcl, Turtle graphics the LOGO way, Syntax parsing in Tcl - Steps towards functional programming.

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 Cyberbit font: The Lish family -- Arabic (A simple Arabic renderer), Chinese (Chinlish), Greek (Greeklish), Hebrew (Heblish), Japanese (Japlish), Korean(Hanglish), Russian (Ruslish), plus some French and Icelandic thrown in at Eurolish ;-), and the introspection facilities that to my knowledge are second to none. -- Unicode file reader - A little Unicode editor...

I am very proud of my daughters, Hannah (*1986) and Hanke (*1990). They both know well what a mouse-click is, and love their dog, Bungee, a Maraman mix. [L3 ][L4 ][L5 ][L6 ][L7 ][L8 ][L9 ][L10 ][L11 ][L12 ][L13 ][L14 ][L15 ][L16 ][L17 ][L18 ][L19 ][L20 ][L21 ][L22 ][L23 ][L24 ][L25 ][L26 ][L27 ][L28 ][L29 ][L30 ][L31 ][L32 ][L33 ][L34 ][L35 ][L36 ][L37 ][L38 ][L39 ][L40 ][L41 ][L42 ][L43 ][L44 ][L45 ][L46 ][L47 ][L48 ][L49 ][L50 ][L51 ][L52 ][L53 ][L54 ][L55 ][L56 ][L57 ][L58 ][L59 ][L60 ][L61 ][L62 ][L63 ][L64 ][L65 ][L66 ][L67 ][L68 ][L69 ][L70 ][L71 ][L72 ][L73 ][L74 ][L75 ][L76 ][L77 ][L78 ][L79 ][L80 ][L81 ][L82 ][L83 ][L84 ][L85 ][L86 ][L87 ][L88 ][L89 ][L90 ][L91 ][L92 ][L93 ][L94 ][L95 ][L96 ][L97 ][L98 ][L99 ][L100 ][L101 ][L102 ][L103 ][L104 ][L105 ][L106 ][L107 ][L108 ][L109 ][L110 ][L111 ][L112 ][L113 ][L114 ][L115 ][L116 ][L117 ][L118 ][L119 ][L120 ][L121 ][L122 ][L123 ][L124 ][L125 ][L126 ][L127 ][L128 ][L129 ][L130 ][L131 ][L132 ][L133 ][L134 ][L135 ][L136 ][L137 ][L138 ][L139 ][L140 ][L141 ][L142 ][L143 ][L144 ][L145 ][L146 ][L147 ][L148 ][L149 ][L150 ][L151 ][L152 ][L153 ][L154 ][L155 ][L156 ][L157 ][L158 ][L159 ][L160 ][L161 ][L162 ][L163 ][L164 ][L165 ][L166 ][L167 ][L168 ][L169 ][L170 ][L171 ][L172 ][L173 ][L174 ][L175 ][L176 ][L177 ][L178 ][L179 ][L180 ][L181 ][L182 ][L183 ][L184 ][L185 ][L186 ][L187 ][L188 ][L189 ][L190 ][L191 ][L192 ][L193 ][L194 ][L195 ][L196 ][L197 ][L198 ][L199 ][L200 ][L201 ][L202 ][L203 ][L204 ][L205 ][L206 ][L207 ][L208 ][L209 ][L210 ][L211 ][L212 ][L213 ][L214 ][L215 ][L216 ][L217 ][L218 ][L219 ][L220 ][L221 ][L222 ][L223 ][L224 ][L225 ][L226 ][L227 ][L228 ][L229 ][L230 ][L231 ]v Contributions to this Wiki (unless linked to above, see also Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming and RS for my personal favorites):

Guarded proc -- how to detect or prevent proc redefinition
99 bottles of beer, Braintwisters -- fun with Tcl
Lambda in Tcl -- first steps towards functional programming
Bag of algorithms -- mixed stuff, fun and serious
Bag of Tk algorithms -- mixed widget stuff
Language/Country name servers -- ISO codes <-> English
Unit converter -- Does km/h <-> mph, DM <-> EUR, C <-> F ...
subcommands -- a value-added switch: automatic error message!
A set of Set operations
Importing expr functions
Gadgets - tally: a string counter gadget - A matrix gadget
expr problems with int
UIC vehicle number validator
Numbered arrays
Buttons with image and text
A question of style
Tk image Dos and Don'ts
Menus made easy
A little spellchecker
A little checker game - Nine Men Morris - A little Go board - A little Pachisi game

... 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.

For a BASIC fun project of mine from 1986, see [L232 ]

Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz wrote an article about Richard Suchenwirth at [L233 ].

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