User since: Aug 12, 2003 at 11:55 UTC (20 years ago) Last here: Sep 04, 2023 at 12:25 UTC (4 weeks ago) Experience: 2168 Level: Chaplain (11) Writeups: 100 Location: Netherlands User's localtime: Oct 03, 2023 at 09:47 +02 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

Characteristics:

• Giant female (6'6")
• Vegetarian
• Dutch, not in Amsterdam
• Stubborn, cats, teasing, reading, movies, SF
• Headbanging speedmetalhead: Kiss, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Annihilator, Testament, Within Temptation
• Concerta/Ritalin-taking ADHD, sometimes nervous, often just being silly hyperactive
• Politician, former council member, member of Dutch liberal party (yeah, a politician)
• Radical atheist
• Beginning writer, mostly SF
• Love whisky and whiskey, especially Laphroaigh, Glenrothes, Gouden Carolus (Belgian!) and Lagavullin
• Sometimes I bark at the moon, play tag or tap someone "on the other shoulder", while trying to look like an innocent lovable 50+ year old

Programming:

• 1983: Pascal (never used it outside the classroom)
• 1986: dBase III+ and Basic (horrible, never used them outside the classroom)
• 1987: TenCORE (amazingly good CBT development system and programming language, helped me provide for my income for over 7 years), Lisp (yegh blergh), C (did 2 $projects)
• 1994: Perl, mostly minor work until 1997
• 1994 etc: bits and pieces of PHP, Javas‎crip‎t, C++, not enough to be able to work with it, enough to stick with Perl

Learned the basics of Perl in 1994. For years I mostly did simple basic things with Perl like s‎crip‎ts for forms and server logs. In 1999 tried to learn more. In 2003 I tried again and even made a japh. I'll be quiet mostly, read and vote, and learn a lot. So that's what I wrote my first Meditation about: Where and how to start learning Perl. I made a Dutch translation, slightly adapted.