HolgerJ

Holger Jakobs - mailto:holger@jakobs.com, see also http://www.jakobs.com

I live and work in Bergisch Gladbach http://www.bergischgladbach.de close to Köln http://www.koeln.de in Germany teaching several IT related subjects at b.i.b. International College http://www.bg.bib.de

I'm into

Tcl/Tk -- not into Perl
LaTeX -- not into Word
PostgreSQL -- not into MySQL
Linux -- not into Windows
OpenOffice.org -- not into M$ Office

because I prefer the smarter solutions.

Most of my programming I do with Tcl/Tk, because I believe it is the easiest way to get things done.

What I would like to have in Tcl/Tk is better support for sorting Unicode according to language-dependent rules instead of following the numerical order of the glyphs. see lsort and http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/

Of course I have tried lots of programming languages:

Basic (Wang, Commodore, Simon's Basic) - it's been a long time!
FORTRAN - had to!
COBOL - had to, luckily only a little!
Pascal (Turbo, Professional) - its time is really over!
Modula-2 (JPI) - was my favourite for years! Took me some time to equip it with the 'widgets' (in text mode, of course) I needed. Was not very useful with Windows, only DOS.
C - took me quite some time to get used to what it all lacks. As a Modula-2-Programmer you are used to a more structured work. It's a pity that Modula-2 lost and C won.
C++ - at least some good ideas of Modula-2 came back here. Still too complicated building cross-platform GUIs. Maybe I'll try wxwidgets one day.
Realizer - was once a competitor of MS Visual Basic by Computer Associates. Not very good.
Tcl/Tk - the best and most complete kit of useful things I ever discovered
Java - is just too complicated, too deeply nested object hierarchy, although lots of useful classes
JavaScripts - only for very little programming of Web pages
PHP - only for two little jobs with MySQL (shudder!!) where nothing else was available

2009-12: I am trying to do some programming for my new Samsung S5230 mobile, using Widgets (as described by W3C) and/or Java ME. Would be very nice to have Tcl/Tk on these machines, but no cigar.

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