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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew,</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>Welcome. A fine choice of platforms... I think it's time I presented
the "PCs" I've owned :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Sinclair Spectrum 48k</DIV>
<DIV>Amiga A500</DIV>
<DIV>Sun SparcStation 1 (on which I wrote my first website, in 1995, using CERN
httpd)</DIV>
<DIV>386sx laptop</DIV>
<DIV>Self-build P90 PC</DIV>
<DIV>Dell Optiplex PII-300 (Dell Optiplex, for when life is too long to worry
about PCs)</DIV>
<DIV>Compaq Proliant 1850R</DIV>
<DIV>Self-build Via 800 mini-ITX PC</DIV>
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<DIV>And programming languages in which I have written a non-trivial
program:</DIV>
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<DIV>Logo</DIV>
<DIV>Sinclair Basic</DIV>
<DIV>C (Unix libraries, Novell libraries, Oracle Libraries)</DIV>
<DIV>Lotus Notes' original IDE-thing that didn't have a name other than
Lotus Notes, in which I wrote my first workflow application, in 1994</DIV>
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<DIV>VBA</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>PERL (forgive me, father, for I have written MySQL control applets in
PERL)</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Prolog</DIV>
<DIV>OCCAM</DIV>
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<DIV>Orwell (probably the language in which I've written most stuff)</DIV>
<DIV>Gofer (now renamed to, erm, I can't remember)</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>For those who haven't come across it, Orwell is sort of an open-source
version of Miranda. In principle I should move over to Haskell, and probably
will do if Haskell.NET ever gets released.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Oh - I'm the evil one on the list who actually likes and uses a mix of
Microsoft tools, and uses Linux when it's appropriate / easy rather than out of
religious fervour :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Mark</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>