user Roger     <hr> Roger has posted his 800th node [326186] on 2004-02-03 08:10:21. <hr> Roger has just made the 3000 XP mark on 25 Nov 2003, at 5:35pm. <hr> Roger is now the very proud father of little Albert! Little Albert was born at 8:08pm, 4th November 2003, the Melbourne Cup day. <hr> Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (University of Melbourne), Bachelor of Computer Science (University of Melbourne), Currently contracting at National Australian Bank holding the following title(s): - Financial Risk Management Systems Expert - <strike>Program Manager</strike> - <strike>Project Manager</strike> - Technical Team Lead and Mentor - System Architect - Business Requirement Analyst - Technical Advisor to Business - Advisor to the Perl Competency - Lead Programmer (99% Perl of course ;-) <hr> My road to Perl was pretty long for people of my age... My frist computer in the early 80's was actually a programmable calculator with a single line of LED display, you can write program in Basic, and print the results on the attached tape printer. Believe or not, it is STILL working! In the 80's - Basic on Programmable calculator (average) - Apple Basic (expert) - Apple 6502 Assembly (above average) - Fortran (average) - Z80 assembly (average) - 8088 assembly (expert) - GWBasic (expert) - Pascal (Borland, Microsoft Quick) (expert) - C (Borland, Microsoft, etc) (expert) In the 90's - 80286 assembly (expert) - C++ (Borland, Watcom, etc) (above average) - 80386 assembly (export) - Scheme (expert) - Lisp (average) - SQL (expert) - 4GL (beginner) - Visual Basic (expert) - Delphi (beginner) - awk, sed, etc... (average) - Shell (average) - Solaris assembly (beginner) - GNU assembly (average) ... I encountered Perl when I went to the home of a professor of my highshool friend (then in a different university), he was writing a document management system for a hospital in Perl, and was looking for people to help him... In the new century - Visual C/C++ .NET (average) - Visual Basic .NET (expert) - Java (beginner, actually, worse than beginner) Nowadays I pretty much only use Perl (and C occasionally for writing XS components). Well, that is not quite true, I am stuck with writing spec's all day long at work, if I am not dragged into meetings for hours. Only at Perl Monks I can have peace and some real fun. :-) <code> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d++ s+:+ a C++++ U++ P+++ L++++ E--- W++ N+ o-- K- w+++ w--(---) O---- M- V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP++ t+++ 5+++ X+++ R+++ tv+++ b++++ DI--- D+++ G-- e++ h++ h---- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ </code> <A href="http://www.ebb.org/cgi-bin/ungeek.cgi?geekCode=GAT+d%2B%2B+s%2B%3A%2B+a+C%2B%2B%2B%2B+U%2B%2B+P%2B%2B%2B+L%2B%2B%2B%2B+E---+W%2B%2B+N%2B+o--+K-+w%2B%2B%2B+w--(---)+O----+M-+V--+PS%2B+PE%2B+Y%2B+PGP%2B%2B+t%2B%2B%2B+5%2B%2B%2B+X%2B%2B%2B+R%2B%2B%2B+tv%2B%2B%2B+b%2B%2B%2B%2B+DI---+D%2B%2B%2B+G--+e%2B%2B+h%2B%2B+h----+r%2B%2B%2B+y%2B%2B%2B">(decode my Geek Code)</A> <A href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=PlotChartImage_VH&nodeid=287641" ALT="XP Plot">See my pointless daily XP chart</A> 2007-05-16 20:30:50 8663 361147 292070 1133 Melbourne, Australia 10 on 80