PERSON
Don Libes
Don Libes
- Don Libes is a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the creator of
expect(1990), the classic Unix tool built on John Ousterhout's Tcl for automating interactive command-line applications over pseudo-terminals and sockets. Connection to My Work
- In June 1991, I rebuilt the core conversational pattern-matching state-machine concepts of Don's
expectinto pure Perl 4 aschat.plandchat2.pl(V2.01.alpha.7), which Larry Wall bundled into the Perl 4 standard library and which later powered the early CPAN mirror network. See The 35-Year Story of chat.pl and chat2.pl. - Don is also well known as the co-author of the classic Unix humor and folklore book Life With UNIX (1989).
- In June 1991, I rebuilt the core conversational pattern-matching state-machine concepts of Don's
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