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< how did you start dev (for those who do)?

At university it dawned on me, that without knowledge of that new fangled computer stuff, future would be kind of hard. So I learned Pascal, Assembly, C along with some embedded programming (motorola 68k) and numerical simulation (hand crafted stuff in the realm of plasma physics). Since noone would write the programs I needed for my thesis (C, Fortran, perl) I had to do it myself. I'm still sailing on this stuff 25 years later, emacs, shell and all! On Linux, in case you wondered.

~bartender? A nice Scotch, please, and a toast to my emacs configuration:

; 1993-02-01 --- started with emacs

Cheers!

PS: At $dayjob I do systems integration. Create a bootloader, linux kernel, minimal userland for embedded "computers" plus everything needed to make the application feel at home.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

hey ~ew!

That's a fair amount of education/training/experience! :)

I remember hearing of Perl back when my brother-in-law graduated college in the early-90s, and I remember looking at one of his textbooks and reading *about* Perl and thinking: "that is complexity on a stick right there!", lmao! IDK if I would ever learn/need Perl in my life.

Which distro of Linux are you using, by the way? Always curious as to what distro people are using, at the time of their reply, lol!

Thanks for the response!