I couldn't have done all this by myself...

So I'd like to say a few words of praise for the Tcl/Tk community in general, and thank a few individuals in particular. The Tcl/Tk folk often seem to me to represent the best of what the Internet should mean: dedicated programmers of high ability, building good code for the love of it, and offering it to the world for free.

The calibre of the programmers I've corresponded with during my 2 years of intensive Tcl/Tk development, and their personal qualities -- like patience, kindness, and persistence in fixing bugs and answering incoherent newbie gripes -- have really impressed me. Ousterhout wrote a good language, but it's the quality of the community that makes it really exciting to work in Tcl and Tk. IMHO.

Some of those who really helped me:

John Ousterhout

Never too proud or busy to argue with a novice user about the proper sizing of text widgets when using porportional fonts. I'm impressed.

Mark Diekhans

For some reason, willing to serve as guardian angel and hand-holder when I built my first Tcl/Tk; can't thank you enough, Mark. Also for TclX, thanks to all its authors.

Tom Poindexter

sybtcl and oratcl author, not to mention make-a-wish and tclrobots and many other cool things. Without sybtcl and wisql, and Tom's encouragement, my users would be sitting in front of Sybase Data Workbench today -- fate almost worse than death.

Kevin Kenny

tclXess author, who despite a new baby and many other considerations was willing to put in hours helping me get the v7 version of his code working.

Sam Shen

Without tkinspect, I'd still be bug-hunting today -- I'd never have made project deadline. What a tool.