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Roger
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Roger has posted his 800th node [326186] on 2004-02-03 08:10:21.
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Roger has just made the 3000 XP mark on 25 Nov 2003, at 5:35pm.
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<b><font size=+1>Roger is now the very proud father of little Albert!<br>
Little Albert was born at 8:08pm, 4th November 2003, the Melbourne Cup day.</font></b><br><br>
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Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (University of Melbourne),<br>
Bachelor of Computer Science (University of Melbourne),<br><br>
Currently contracting at National Australian Bank holding the following title(s):<br>
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- Financial Risk Management Systems Expert<br>
- <strike>Program Manager</strike><br>
- <strike>Project Manager</strike><br>
- Technical Team Lead and Mentor<br>
- System Architect<br>
- Business Requirement Analyst<br>
- Technical Advisor to Business<br>
- Advisor to the Perl Competency<br>
- Lead Programmer (99% Perl of course ;-)<br>
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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!<br><br>
<b>In the 80's</b></br>
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- Basic on Programmable calculator (average)<br>
- Apple Basic (expert)<br>
- Apple 6502 Assembly (above average)<br>
- Fortran (average)<br>
- Z80 assembly (average)<br>
- 8088 assembly (expert)<br>
- GWBasic (expert)<br>
- Pascal (Borland, Microsoft Quick) (expert)<br>
- C (Borland, Microsoft, etc) (expert)<br>
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<b>In the 90's</b><br>
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- 80286 assembly (expert)<br>
- C++ (Borland, Watcom, etc) (above average)<br>
- 80386 assembly (export)<br>
- Scheme (expert)<br>
- Lisp (average)<br>
- SQL (expert)<br>
- 4GL (beginner)<br>
- Visual Basic (expert)<br>
- Delphi (beginner)<br>
- awk, sed, etc... (average)<br>
- Shell (average)<br>
- Solaris assembly (beginner)<br>
- GNU assembly (average)<br>
...<br><br>
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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...<br><br>
<b>In the new century</b><br>
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- Visual C/C++ .NET (average)<br>
- Visual Basic .NET (expert)<br>
- Java (beginner, actually, worse than beginner)<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
Only at Perl Monks I can have peace and some real fun. :-)<br><br>
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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+++
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<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"><font size=-1><i>(decode my Geek Code)</i></font></A>
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<A href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=PlotChartImage_VH&nodeid=287641" ALT="XP Plot">See my pointless daily XP chart</A>
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