PERSON
John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout
- John Ousterhout is a computer scientist, professor of computer science at Stanford University, and creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk graphical user interface toolkit.
Connection to My Work
- In 1988, John created Tcl/Tk while at UC Berkeley, which enabled Don Libes to write the
expectautomation tool in 1990. - Without John's work on Tcl/Tk, we would not have had
expect—which directly inspired me to writechat.plandchat2.plin June 1991 to bringexpect-style pattern-matching state-machine automation into pure Perl. See The 35-Year Story of chat.pl and chat2.pl.
- In 1988, John created Tcl/Tk while at UC Berkeley, which enabled Don Libes to write the
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