John Ousterhout

John Ousterhout is the original force behind the scripting programming language Tcl and the platform-independent GUI toolkit Tk, which he developed when he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley. See http://purl.org/tcl/home/scripting/tclHistory.html for John's recounting of Tcl's early days. (2001-05-14) JO's homepage is now at http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/

A series of powerpoint slides John used for tutorials, plus postscript versions, can be found at ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z .

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See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy