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elhosots • today at 6:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Many VLSI CAD tools come with a tcl console window. Im gratified to see the continued language support

Kudo’s to Mr Osterhout’s long lived legacy

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bch • today at 7:52 PM

> Kudo’s to Mr Osterhout’s long lived legacy

Tcl and Tk are fantastic, and if this is where it ended, John Ousterhout would have secured his place in history - this is only 1 piece of his contributions, though - see too:

  * Log structured file system[0]

  * parallel Make[1] (Adam de Boor from Sprite project, not JO hisself)

  * RAFT consensus protocol[2]

  * Various notable teachings [3][4][5]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system

[1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bmake&sektion=1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(algorithm)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy

[4] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf

[5] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/aposd.php

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