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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?

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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?

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*other includes education, biotech, chemist, mining, telecom etc.

Participant Poll: Which version of Tcl do

you use?

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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: clif@noucorp.com

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