mailto: Richard.Suchenwirth-Bauersachs at siemens.com -- See the [RS] page for links to my latest pages --
Legal name: Richard Suchenwirth-Bauersachs

[http://mini.net/files/Suchenwirth-Bauersachs_Richard.jpg]
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'''Development engineer''' at Siemens Postal Automation, Konstanz  [http://www.konstanz.de], Germany
(makers of Postal Automation Equipment: letter/flat/parcel sorters etc.:
[http://www.electrocom.de/doc/normal.asp?id=437&m1=10322&m2=421&m3=437&domid=30&sp=E&aktion=] ). 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, in 1977, 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. 
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]
   * [Assign using equals]
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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.

For a BASIC fun project of mine from 1986, see [http://www.cirsovius.de/PCW/Klubzeitung/Nr02/PRTHELP.BAS]
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[Cameron Laird] and Kathryn Soraiz wrote an article about Richard Suchenwirth at [http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7458/uni1026831949806/].
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