Jack Waugh

Software Engineer

My resume is available in .doc (Word), .html (web), and .odt (openoffice.org) formats.

I've been programming in Ruby and Smalltalk (C before that). I have worked on a variety of types of application, including insurance, finance, telecom, network performance modeling, compilers and interpreters, and dynamic web sites.

I can interact with nontechnical people and help make sure their requirements are correctly documented to guide the technical people.

I'm good at detail work, such as administering servers, or distilling data using spreadsheets (as e. g., for comparing alternative sources of products and services).

I have studied COBOL and could probably help maintain legacy code.

You can reach me at "1m9v0t902" at "sneakemail" dot "moc", except reverse the spelling of that last term "moc"; write it as "com", of course.

Off the Rails!

This static web site is coded in Ruby (but without using the famous Ruby on Rails web framework). Thanks, MATSUMOTO Yukihiro , for the language and the interpreter!

Research Interest

I'm interested in prototyping a computer programming language of a certain type.

1. Introduction
2. Current musing

Draft Standard for the Ruby Language

A posting on a Singapore Ruby group gives a draft standard for the Ruby language. Click the "show quoted text" link in there to see that the draft is being considered by the Information-technology Promotion Agency of Japan, with an aim to submit a version of it for consideration for an international standard.

[2010-02-23]