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Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Robert Dober

7/17/2007 1:27:00 PM

Ok I'll put my cards on the table
male 45y
bg: Pascal (who's laughing?) Ada83, perl, python [ I only chose the
languages that influenced me, so I left C, bash and awk away ;)]
wk: Sys and netadmin Arrggg
location: Paris/France

Hope to see lots of others

Cheers
Robert

--
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.
I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck
102 Answers

Todd Burch

7/17/2007 1:38:00 PM

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Male 44years
Well known Languages: IBM Mainframe Assembler, REXX, Ruby
OK known Languages: C/C++, Java, Javascript
Work: Mainframe DataBase (DB2) Performance Monitor Developer
Location: Katy, Texas, USA.

Todd

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Jano Svitok

7/17/2007 1:41:00 PM

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male 28y
bg: basic, pascal, c, java, python, c++ (symbian), 2 yrs ruby fulltime
(automated testing of c++ network app), now c++ win32
wk: C++ programmer, mobile-related
location: Bratislava/Slovakia

Jano

Robert Klemme

7/17/2007 2:08:00 PM

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m40y, located in Germany

Studies in CS using Pascal at the time, before that juvenile Z80
hackery, after university a bit of C++ coding and then Java. I also
like bash / sh programming and use Ruby for small day to day data
mining / manipulating tasks for which I used Perl once (must be ages
ago). Currently diving into J2EE. Ah, and of course lots of SQL
(mainly Oracle and SQL Server).

robert


PS: Robert, IMHO Pascal is a great language for learning to program
because it omits the dimension of OO and allows to focus on proper
structuring. Also, it's far more readable than C.

SonOfLilit

7/17/2007 3:47:00 PM

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m18y, Technion, Haifa.

Teenage hackery in BASIC, then a flurry of languages, settling
eventually on C, then Ruby.
work: C++, C and .NET internals doing software DRM for a security
software company, then C# doing data analysis for a web startup
(ClickTale... Every webmaster should have a look at them, they have a
great product and I work for them just because of how cool the product
and the people are).


Aur

Ari Brown

7/17/2007 4:45:00 PM

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Is anyone here in the Dartmouth/ Lake Sunapee area of New Hampshire?
Yeah, a little sketchy and dodgy, but I'm wondering if there are any
other Ruby programmers outside of Portsmouth, NH.

Checking round
~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.

Robert Dober

7/17/2007 4:49:00 PM

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On 7/17/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
> m18y, Technion, Haifa.
My respect I'd probably added 10 years when I was your age;)

Cheers
R.

Michael Fellinger

7/17/2007 5:03:00 PM

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male 22y
bg: dabbling in QBASIC, then a tiny bit of delphi when i was around
8-10 and finally PHP, discovered my love for ruby and programming
years later, now learning everything that comes along (smalltalk,
lisp/scheme, dylan, asm, bash, neko, haskell), lucky to have skipped
C/C++/Java and all the others :)
wk: IT-guy for everything
location: Tokyo/Japan

^ manveru

Todd Benson

7/17/2007 5:07:00 PM

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m33y
bg: (programming, in choronological order) basic, fortran, pascal, c,
mathematica, c++, java, sql, php; none of which I'm particularly good
at (well, I'm ok in sql)
wk: engineering, network admin, some web development, mostly in the
data storage industry (robotic tape libraries)

Todd

John Joyce

7/17/2007 5:10:00 PM

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male 32y
background: Art, dabbling in C, Objective-C, designing web pages in
xhtml & CSS, dabbled w/PHP but found Ruby to be very lovely and
sensible, and more coherent than PHP. Learning Rails now.
work: none at the moment, but open to offers
location: Austin, Texas; previous 5 years in Tokyo, Japan


John Joyce

Ryan Davis

7/17/2007 5:19:00 PM

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On Jul 17, 2007, at 06:26 , Robert Dober wrote:

> Ok I'll put my cards on the table
> male 45y
> bg: Pascal (who's laughing?) Ada83, perl, python [ I only chose the
> languages that influenced me, so I left C, bash and awk away ;)]
> wk: Sys and netadmin Arrggg
> location: Paris/France

male 34 seattle wa

bg (chrono): logo, basic, hypercard, forth, pascal, c, object pascal,
modula-2, smalltalk (finally fell in love with a language), sh/csh, c+
+, applescript, prolog, bash, perl, java, python, ruby, objective-c,
lisp/scheme, and some others I've since forgotten about scattered
throughout.

wk: consultant, mostly ruby/rails