Bill Trost
mailto:trost@cloud.rain.com
Motorola, Inc.
Portland, Oregon
I used to be a "senior software engineer" (getting old, I guess) for Ease Software, but finally sold out in May of '04 when Tut Systems made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Tut was later bought out by Motorola.
Formerly, a majority of my work was Forensic Software Analysis. I seldom do any object-oriented programming, although in July of 1998 I was writing a Java program to emulate a robot while trying to apply all those Extreme Programming techniques I had just learned by happening onto patterns and this Wiki. This software consists of a whole whopping 1900 lines of code with 83 tests in 21 files (30 classes total).
I have made significant contributions to wily, an implementation of the Acme Programming Environment. While at Reed College, I worked one summer at Tek Labs' Computer Research Lab, although in 1988, long after the glory days of Tek Smalltalk. I am an INXP on the Myers Briggs scale.
My name backwards, Lib Tsort, is the name of a topological sort library that has yet to be written. (-:
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