Notes from Tcl/Tk 1997, Boston

Wed First Session

I was on first. Got a few interesting comments afterward. Somebody suggested a translation from programmerspeak into English! When I happened to mention Cree in a hallway discussion afterward, heard an interesting tale: California law required languages on ballots to include all with native-speaker population above a threshold... and they discovered that some significantly-used languages have no written form!

Assertions for the Tcl Language. It would be nice to have a way to really and truly comment out assertions\(emnull procedures have a cost. There are problems with atomicity for data assertions: when should they be checked? Data checks on aggregates can be costly, especially in code that walks through them: turns linear algorithms into quadratic.

Late news on last paper: OAT has been renamed FATCAT.

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