In the early eighties I bought a Texas Instruments TI 99/4a - unfortunately it was broken. And even more horrible: as TI stopped the production of that wonderful machine it was not possible to get a working replacement. I literally spent all my pennys to buy a Commodore 64 instead. And so it came that I lost some years to computer games :smirk: But finally I ended up being interested in programming …

Well, I studied that beast and got a more or less professional developer. Became a project manager, got to be the development manager, became the manager of development managers, recognizing that I really missed programming. So after 16 years of being a manager I did a break and got back to doing things. I think my life is better now.

Languages I got to get known eventually

My personal journey across the space of languages. I got quite good in some of them, but not that good in most, really.

  • Commodore 64 Basic
  • C64 machine language (or assembler as it would be called later. Using SMON)
  • Pascal (Oxford Pascal on the C64, but much more Turbo Pascal on the PC)
  • 80286 Assembler
  • C, C++ (Turbo C)
  • Bourne Shell
  • Common Lisp (Macintosh Common Lisp (Mac) and Allegro Common Lisp (PC))
  • Java
  • C#
  • Javascript (the old way)
  • Python
  • Google Go

You will find most of my side projects of the more recent years on my Github profile: https://github.com/wlbr While most of them are unfinished rubbish, some actually could be useful. See projects.