Designing a global name service
PODC '86 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
The need for closure in large distributed systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Lightweight remote procedure call
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A portable multithreading framework
C/C++ Users Journal
Managing Tcl's namespaces collaboratively
TCLTK'97 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop 1997 - Volume 5
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At Healtheon, we used Tcl to rapidly develop a scalable, high performance rule engine for processing dynamic application logic. The nature of our application requirements, plus the challenge of delivering robust software in a timely manner made Tcl an optimal overall choice in our deployment. We were able to improve rule processing performance by careful language construction and support for concurrent execution. We developed a mechanism for implementing data-driven language extensions, called rule concepts, which allowed us to present a customized language for each client, and encouraged rule reusability. Our experience with using Tcl in our application system was also representative of software engineering choices that small companies often make in pursuit of rapidly developing a well-balanced system solution.