Can somebody remind me of a medical data format scriptable with Tcl

jemptymethod

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Apr 16, 2018, 7:47:39 PM4/16/18

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I want to write an article for dev.to in which I will talk about what first drew me to Tcl, which was that when I worked in a hospital they used a data format that was scriptable with Tcl, so I decided to pick up some basics of the language. For the life of me though I can't remember what that format or the acronym for it is and also can't find it after 10 minutes or so of Googling.

Does anybody recall this, thanks in advance.

George

jemptymethod

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Apr 16, 2018, 7:50:53 PM4/16/18

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More googling and I think I found it, HL7: https://wiki.tcl.tk/8893

Arjen Markus

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Apr 17, 2018, 7:37:10 AM4/17/18

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Yes, I remember that Pascal Scheffers presented that work at the EuroTcl meeting in Nuernberg. He mentioned that there were expensive commercial libraries available for dealing with this type of data - his script was a welcome alternative. While I have little or nothing to do with medical data, this is definitely one format for which Tcl support is available. Good luck with that article.

Regards,

Arjen

Harald Oehlmann

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Apr 17, 2018, 8:29:51 AM4/17/18

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Am 17.04.2018 um 13:37 schrieb Arjen Markus:
> Yes, I remember that Pascal Scheffers presented that work at the EuroTcl meeting in Nuernberg. He mentioned that there were expensive commercial libraries available for dealing with this type of data - his script was a welcome alternative. While I have little or nothing to do with medical data, this is definitely one format for which Tcl support is available. Good luck with that article.

Hi Arjen,
this was ETCL 2003 (4th ETCL meeting).
I am quite interested in HL7.
The conference pages are down. Perhaps I should E-Mail Rainhard if he
has a copy of the presentation.

Pascal Scheffers apparently left. At least, his wiki page has a dead
link to his photo and his personal domain is offline.

But there is HL7 code on the wiki. So, that is probably what he spoke about.

Thanks anyway,
Harald

Arjen Markus

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Apr 17, 2018, 9:56:43 AM4/17/18

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Hi Harald,

yes, that is the small but versatile library indeed. Pascal took over the company of his uncle if I remember correctly and then left the Tcl community. Reinhard may have contact information.

Regards,

Arjen

Ashok

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Apr 17, 2018, 10:15:00 AM4/17/18

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It's great you are writing about Tcl in a general programming forum.
Hope this is the first of many and others contribute.

/Ashok

Paul Obermeier

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Apr 17, 2018, 1:23:22 PM4/17/18

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I've uploaded Pascals presentation to
http://www.eurotcl.eu/download/EuroTcl2003-Scheffers-GenerationR.pdf

Paul

jemptymethod

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Apr 17, 2018, 2:00:37 PM4/17/18

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 9:15:00 AM UTC-5, Ashok wrote:
> It's great you are writing about Tcl in a general programming forum.
> Hope this is the first of many and others contribute.
>
> /Ashok

Thanks for your interest, I cranked out that article already, don't know that I have much more to write about Tcl, it's strictly my hobbyist non-web scripting language, but I think think this dev.to platform may have some promise -- I tried codrspace a few years ago but that has gone under

Anyway here's the link: https://dev.to/dexygen/what-100-lines-of-tcl-code-can-accomplish-9fb

Harald Oehlmann

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Apr 17, 2018, 4:08:16 PM4/17/18

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Thank you, Paul, that is helpful !
Will the link last ? May I put it on the wiki ?
Wouldn't it be an idea to make all presentations public ?

Thanks,
Harald