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[Geoff Teale]

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 21:51, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Nik
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:53:29PM +0000, Nik Butler wrote:
> > I therefore wonder is we could draw matrix of languages and platforms
> > and so which of us did what and where and with which.
> 
> That could get to be a long, long list - so here goes:
<snip>
Hmm, the only value in this is to produce some reference document so we
don't have to give our backgrounds every time someone new asks...  as
far as the "best language / platform for foo, bar or gurgle" is
concerned, well it's fairly subjective and it does depend on the
specifics of the situation, and for every technical arguement there is
always a financial and political arguement to match.

Anyhow, just because I'm as interested in talking about myself as the
next man.. I shall follow Steve's format

Timeframe	Platform(s)	Languages	Project
---------	-----------	---------	-------
1983-1987	Zilog Z80	BASIC		Er.. learning to program 		(Spectrum
48k)			very roughly.  
						Ultimately a "Frogger" 						clone was the height of my
						achievments.

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1987-1993	Montrola 68000	Amiga Basic	Little animation demo's	
		Montrola 68030	(yuk)		to get my "Computers" 
		(Amiga A500 1MB)		badge in Scouts
		(Amiga A1500 
		 + 68030 	AMOS		Little platform	games.
		 accelerator
		, 5MB)
				(SAS) C++	Midi controller software 
				ArgAsm		Little graphics and 						sound demos - exploring
						Paula, Agnes and Denise!
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May/June
1993		80486, 4MB	Pascal		Little text processing 	
		OS/2 Warp			programs for my first 						job.  (Dungeness B).

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July 1993 - 	nothing		nothing		nothing
September 1995

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Sep 1995 -
Sep 1996	P75, 8MB	Pascal		1st Year Uni Coursework
		NT 3.5 

sep 1996 -
sep 1997	P75, 16MB	Pascal		2nd year uni coursework	
		NT 3.5,
		Red Hat Linux 	C, LISP, Korn Shell     	"  "

		DEC Alpha
		DIGITAL UNIX	PL/SQL, C, PASCAL		"  " 

		
sep 1997 - 	P166MMX, 32MB	Prolog, Delphi 3, 3rd Year Coursework.
sep 1998	NT 3.5, 	LISP, Korn Shell,
		Red Hat Linux,	Eiffel.
		FreeBSD 
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Sep 1998 -	Pentium PC's 	Visual Basic 5,6  Rentokil Initial.
April 2000	Win 95,		ASP		  Lost of database 
		SCO Unix	HTML		  systems.
				Progress
				Bash 
				SQL

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Jan 1999 - 	
February 2002	Pentium PC's	C++		Home use, toy programs.
		BeOS		Ruby		Some W3C dev work.
		SuSE Linux,			Co-developed ped-ph4 for
		QNX RtP				QNX.

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April 2000 - 	Penitum PC's	Visual Basic	Primark / Thomson
March 2002	HP-RISC		C++, C		Special Projects (R&D)
		Sun UltraSparc	ASP		Technology Solutions
		PowerPC		HTML		- new platform research
		NT 4, Win 2000,	XML		and advisory service.
		QNX RtP, 	XSLT
		Solaris,	Ruby		W3C development on SVG 
		HP-UX,				refrence 		Plan9				implementations.
		

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March 2002 - 	Pentium PC	Visual Basic	Pensions/Payroll product
		Nt4/2000			code :(

		Pentium PC	C, C++, Ruby	General effort to get 	
		various Linux	Python,		my Linux programming up 
		(mostly Gentoo) CORBA		to scratch.  Mostly 						hacking for fun.
		
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Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
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