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+100 for his book. TIL he created TCL also. The book is excellent and one of the very resources that talks about architecture independent of language or tech-st
by dilawar 2y ago
+100 for his book. TIL he created TCL also. The book is excellent and one of the very resources that talks about architecture independent of language or tech-stack used.
- notRobot 2y agoHe also gave a talk that greatly influenced how I look at relationships: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/27a585fcf36d6e657db2 https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/27a585fcf36d6e657db2
- mananaysiempre 2y agoLike Lamport, who is more widely known for (what was originally) his side project LaTeX than for his seminal distributed systems research including Paxos, Ousterhout tends to be more widely known by name for (what was originally) his side project Tcl than for his seminal distributed systems research including Raft.
- awesomeMilou 2y agoWhat an amusing coincidence, I didn't know Lamport wrote LaTeX, rather I knew of him only in connection with Lamport clocks.
- abhgh 2y ago"(La)Tex" is believed to expand to "(Lamport)TeX" although I haven't seen an official source for that trivia :-)
- p_l 2y agoOusterhout also I think had outsized presence in early VLSI tooling, which is why TCL happened and why is it still common in tooling (pun intended)