Standards are not a straight-jacket - they are there to give you the freedom to forget the problem.

The great thing about standards are ... there are so many to choose from!

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NIST also maintains the Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures:

[1]

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NIST is also home to Don Libes (and Expect) and Donald Porter.

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Well, "big", in some senses, at least. NIST [2], as we most frequently think of it, employs both Donald Porter, a current member of the TCT, and Don Libes, one of the most experienced Tcl programmers, and author of the first widely-used extension (Expect).

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