Summary edit
John Ousterhout is the original author of Tcl and Tk.See Also edit
- History of Tcl
- by John
- Wikipedia
- homepage at Stanford
- Ousterhout's Dichotomy
- John's observation, made in 1998, that a fundamental shift from systems languages to scripting languages was occurring
Other Work edit
- Sprite
- an operating system
- Log-structured File System
Writing edit
- BOOK Tcl and the Tk Toolkit
- Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century
- IEEE Computer Magazine, 1998-03. The article that layed out Ousterhout's Dichotomy
- An Overview of Tcl and Tk
- Writing Tcl-Based Applications in C
- based on John's powerpoint tutorials
- Building User Interfaces with Tcl and Tk
- based on John's powerpoint tutorials
- An Introduction to Tcl Scripting
- based on John's powerpoint tutorials
- postscript versions of John's powerpoint tutorials
Quotes edit
- "The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state"
- anyone have a source for this?
History edit
- http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/
- previous location (2001) of Ousterhout's homepage
- Lightning Fast Builds for Embedded Software Developers
- was a webinar about Electric Cloud's make acceleration software that took place on 2004-10-06. It may still be available behind the register wall.
Resources edit
- The A-Z of Programming Languages: Tcl
- an interview between John and Kathryn Edwards, Computerworld, 2009-05-08
