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John Ousterhout Alive

John Ousterhout
KindPerson
Born1954
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceweb.stanford.edu ↗

Created Tcl/Tk — a language designed to be embedded in other programs — and wrote A Philosophy of Software Design.

Created Tcl

Created Tcl and Tk (1988) — the embeddable-language-plus-GUI pair — and wrote 'A Philosophy of Software Design' (2018), the industry-standard argument against complexity.\n\nStanford professor; Raft consensus and RAMCloud are his other exports.

Sources

  1. web.stanford.edu/~ouster/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout