Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
by monkeydust on Saturday July 20, 2024 @03:26PM
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I remember early in my career working at an investment bank on the trading floor as a support analyst.
I was asked by a very frustrated trader to modify the behaviour of one of the trading apps.. basically he shouted..."just figure it out". Yea he was bit of a twat but then trading desks have changed a lot today.
The app was from a 3rd party provider and making changes would take time of course, then they told me I could do this myself with Tcl. So in a day I figured out Tcl, made the change and it was in production the next day. Of course doing that now would be impossible but I remember the buzz from being able to make a real world change so damn fast.
I was asked by a very frustrated trader to modify the behaviour of one of the trading apps.. basically he shouted..."just figure it out". Yea he was bit of a twat but then trading desks have changed a lot today.
The app was from a 3rd party provider and making changes would take time of course, then they told me I could do this myself with Tcl. So in a day I figured out Tcl, made the change and it was in production the next day. Of course doing that now would be impossible but I remember the buzz from being able to make a real world change so damn fast.