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Tom Radcliffe, Director of Engineering, ActiveStateClif Flynt, President, Tcl Community Association
The ActiveState of Tcl
• President, Tcl Community Association
• President, Noumena Corporation
> Author: Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide
Clif Flynt
REPLACE
• 2016 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics Laureate (1 of 1380)
• Casual Tcl user (mostly VTK scripting)
• Entrepreneur (Predictive Patterns Software Inc)
• ActiveState, Director of Engineering since July 2015
Tom Radcliffe
Tcl Origins> Developed in late 1980s at UC Berkeley as a tool for other
research projects
> Designed to be easily extended and embedded. Made hybrid applications common
> Introduced at USENIX conference in 1990
> Received ACM Software System award in 1997 for the advances in software design
State of Tcl> Tcl/Tk is in constant development
> New features and performance improvements are added almost weekly
> Current release is 8.6.6
> Next major release will be 9.0
> Active work on MS Windows integration, performance, Tk text and canvas.
Tcl Trends> AndroWish> TclOO> By industry (Eg. FPGA/EDA)> Test automation> Bare-metal compiling
7 Reasons Why The Future is Bright> Rapid prototyping> Prototyping Android and IOT apps> UX focused design models> Devops tools configuration> Critical to IoT - EDA/FPGA> Ubiquitous in mission critical situations> Learn quickly, commercially supported
Tcl Survey 2016
Participant Poll: How long have you
been using Tcl?
#komodox
How long have you
been using Tcl?
What do Tcl users do?
*other includes professors, electrical/design engineers, lab technologists, chief scientists etc.
Tcl Job Titles
Participant Poll: What industry are you
in?
#komodox
Where do Tcl users work?
*other includes education, biotech, chemist, mining, telecom etc.
Participant Poll: Which version of Tcl do
you use?
#komodox
Which version of Tcl do you
use?
Versions of Tcl
Tcl Conference > November 14-18> Houston, Texas
> Request for papers open> Due September 12th> https://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2016/index.html
Find Clif FlyntWebsite: http://www.noucorp.com/About/Clif_Resume.htmlEmail: [email protected]
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