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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.