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# Maintenance of the coverage of [[Tcl]] and quality of its examples |
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Most recently, I've been working on going through ''all'' the solutions by Tcl to tasks, checking for correctness (both generally and with respect to the task), clarity of explanation where needed, and clarity of presentation and formatting. This was mainly [[wp:Wikipedia:WikiGnome|wikignoming]], but not entirely. |
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## It is my aim to make sure that Tcl is a participant in every task possible (including the “hard” ones) and that for all others it is clearly marked as not participating. At time of writing, there are only three non-participations... |
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## Every Tcl example must be clear, as short as possible, and informative. They must also be written well (formatting, syntax, grammar, etc.) |
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Before that, I focussed especially on “hard” problems, dealing with the tasks that needed the application of advanced machinery such as threads (a lesser known part of Tcl) or an object system (only recently standardized). |
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# General maintenance of pages through [[wp:Wikipedia:WikiGnome|wikignoming]] |
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# Contribution of new tasks. My criteria are that the task should be possible in multiple languages ''and'' either part of a set of related tasks or illustrative of a feature that should be widely known of. Currently authored tasks: |
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#* [[Median]] |
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#* [[Common number base parsing]] |
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#* [[Unknown Method]] |
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#* [[Client-Authenticated HTTPS Request]] |
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#* [[HTTPS Request]] |
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#* [[Print a Stack Trace]] |
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#* [[Echo Server]] |
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Revision as of 22:43, 12 June 2009
| My Favorite Languages | |
| Language | Proficiency |
| Tcl | Wrote the book |
| C | Advanced |
| Java | Advanced |
| UNIX Shell | Advanced |
| Fortran | Intermediate |
| LaTeX | Intermediate |
| M4 | Intermediate |
| Perl | Intermediate |
| PostScript | Intermediate |
| Standard ML | Intermediate |
| C++ | Beginner |
| Emacs Lisp | Beginner |
| Lisp | Beginner |
| Modula-3 | Beginner |
| Pascal | Beginner |
| Prolog | Beginner |
| SQL | Beginner |
| XSLT | Beginner |
| C sharp | Read-only |
| Objective-C | Read-only |
| Python | Read-only |
| Ruby | Read-only |
I'm Donal Fellows, a maintainer of Tcl and member of the Tcl Core Team. I've also got a reasonable amount of experience with Java and C, and I'm fairly familiar with quite a few others. (looks at language box...) OK, a lot of others. (I also know HTML, CSS and XML fairly well, but don't consider them to be programming languages.)
I work at the University of Manchester, where I'm a Senior Software Engineer supporting Research Computing university-wide. My focus is largely on strategic development opportunities and standardization for Grid Computing and the Cloud, mainly as part of the EU-funded Framework programmes. Sometimes that ends up feeling like I'm programming research projects in Word and Powerpoint...
Rosetta Code Projects
- Maintenance of the coverage of Tcl and quality of its examples
- It is my aim to make sure that Tcl is a participant in every task possible (including the “hard” ones) and that for all others it is clearly marked as not participating. At time of writing, there are only three non-participations...
- Every Tcl example must be clear, as short as possible, and informative. They must also be written well (formatting, syntax, grammar, etc.)
- General maintenance of pages through wikignoming
- Contribution of new tasks. My criteria are that the task should be possible in multiple languages and either part of a set of related tasks or illustrative of a feature that should be widely known of. Currently authored tasks: