A guy known as XO, eXtra Old in Cyberspace, at the age of 54, it's considered extra old in this part of the world, if one still gets hands dirty, coding something.
I lecture in Fu-Jen Catholic University [L1 ], and is also a co-founder & CTO of a small design house, CQ Inc. [L2 ]
About three years ago, began very much enjoying the scripting language, especially Tcl. Tk seems even better, however besides using SpecTcl building simple GUI interfaces for our Tcl scripts, honestly, don't know Tk very much. Did once try Visual Tcl, however terrified by the complexity of the codes generated. I also accidentally bought a second hand book, "BOOK The Visual TCL Handbook, 1/e", it's about Visual Tcl, however this Visual Tcl is not that Visual Tcl, a.k.a vTcl. ^o^
Kind of attracted by the "jim", by its small footprint, however still too big for our picMicro based Embedded system. ucLinux / Linux based platforms are currently under surveyed.
Leveraging Starkit/Tclkit/Starpack, Metakit & Tclhttpd a lot. On and off, study OpenACS for quite sometime. Use Snit for our OO. Recently also studying moodss.
Zigbee wireless sensors network will be one of our focus areas in the near future.
Has been with this wiki for a while, however "Klant" is the one who brought me here to this particular page.
As of Today (2006/2/18), attracted by Python, while thinking about a more scripting level of language to do system programming, however later being led to Ruby, and ended up with Lua finally, I sincerely hope so, there are simply too many of them ^o^.
Benchmark results here [L3 ] may have something to do with how & why I ended up with Lua. Tcl's zero learning curve is certainly a sugar for the end users spicing up whatever they want on our products, there is no doubt about it, what I have been looking for recently, is sort of a more for internal R&D use high level language, but with better performance.
So instead of Tcl + C, I am shooting for Tcl + Lua. Lux [L4 ] comes in handy, however seems like a little bit old, it's done some time in 2001.
Still try to catch up with the Moon (Oops, I mean Lua) by burning the midnight oil, grinding my nose on the book: Programming in Lua [L5 ], a.k.a. Blue PiL, very well written book BTW.