For those unfamiliar with the author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout He is probably most famous f

For those unfamiliar with the author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout He is probably most famous for having created the Tcl language and Tk GUI library. He also worked on the Sprite distributed operating system, the Magic VLSI design tool, and a bunch of other things.