Porter Elected to Tcl Developer Team
August 2000
Donald G. Porter of the ITL Mathematical and Computational
Sciences Division has been elected to serve on the fourteen
member Tcl Core Team, a new development team managing the
development of Tcl, the Tool Command Language, and Tk, a toolkit
of graphical widgets suitable for building user interfaces.
The Tcl Core Team was elected by the community of Tcl users
in August, 2000. Twenty-four active contributors to Tcl and
Tk were candidates in the election.
Tcl and Tk were created by John Ousterhout in 1988 at the
University of California at Berkeley. Tcl now has a user
community of over half a million developers. Development
of Tcl and Tk has followed Ousterhout from Berkeley to
Sun Microsystems to Ajuba Solutions (formerly Scriptics).
In July 2000, Ousterhout called for the election of the
Tcl Core Team to place further development of Tcl/Tk in the
hands of the Tcl community at large.
Tcl is in widespread use as a critical component by thousands
of corporations. Tcl forms the base of NIST's widely used
software tool, Expect. Well known Tcl success stories have been
reported by America Online, Vignette Corporation, Cisco Systems,
NationsBank, and the National Broadcasting Company.
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