mailto:Richard.Suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de --
Legal name: Richard Suchenwirth-Bauersachs
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'''Development engineer''' at Siemens Electrocom, Konstanz  [http://www.konstanz.de], Germany
(makers of Postal Automation Equipment: letter/flat/parcel sorters etc.:
http://www.electrocom.de ), sitting in the same room with [Ulf Jasper]. Sorry, my real homepage is on our firewalled intranet, so I'm slightly verbose here.

'''Learnt programming''' on a Diehl Combitron S back in '73, but my first "real" machine was an IBM 1130 (boasting 32KB "core memory"; saving source code to disk was considered wasteful -- keep the punch cards instead..;-). Went from Univac 1108 to Pr1me 750 to PDP to VAX to Symbolics to Sun (plus TRS-80, Schneider Joyce, Atari ST, DOS/Win boxes). I write C when I have to, and Tcl when I feel like it (that's often).

'''Linguist at heart''', so interested in (and pretty happy with) Tcl's styles as a programming language, and its support for natural (people's) languages (see discussion of [Salt and Sugar], [upvar sugar]). One thing I like about Tcl is its Play-Doh-like flexibility -- designed to be strictly Polish (function/operator first, arguments after), you can still introduce infix notation (for assignment) or circumfix notation (for indexing) - see [Radical Language Modification], [Is Tcl Different!].

'''Frequent Tcl user''' both at work (OCR software on Sun/WinNT) and at home (frolicking in Tcl's  [Unicode and UTF-8] support for linguistic applications over the whole bandwidth of the now-withdrawn Bitstream Cyberbit font: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, plus some French and Icelandic thrown in ;-) and the introspection facilities that to my knowledge are second to none.
-- [Unicode file reader]...

I am very proud of my daughters, '''Hannah''' (*1986) and 
'''Hanke''' (*1990). They both know well what a mouse-click is, and love to play tennis, and dogs. Hanke won 4th prize at the 
''TC Nicolai Bambini tournament'' [http://www.seeseiten.de/user/tcnicolai] in Constance on Jul 24, 1999.

Contributions to this Wiki (unless linked to above):
   * [Guarded proc] -- how to detect or prevent proc redefinition
   * [99 bottles of beer] -- fun with Tcl
   * [Lambda in Tcl] -- first steps to functional programming
   * [Bag of algorithms] -- mixed stuff, fun and serious
   * [Bag of Tk algorithms] -- mixed widget stuff
   * [Language/Country name servers] -- ISO codes <-> English
   * [Unit converter] -- Does km/h <-> mph, DM <-> EUR, C <-> F ... 
   * [subcommands] -- a value-added switch: automatic error message! 
   * [A set of Set operations]
   * [Importing expr functions]
   * [tally: a string counter gadget]
   * [expr problems with int]
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... a good proc fits between thumb and middle finger...
... even O(N**N) may be ok, for sufficiently small N ...
... and "shimmering" is definitely not a four-letter word. (E.g. [subcommands])