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| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| 1 Title: About this blog | |
| 2 Date: 2014-10-28 | |
| 3 Author: Dirk Olmes | |
| 4 Summary: About this blog | |
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| 6 I've had interest in computers ever since I turned 15 or so. My first machine was a [Commodore 64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64), mostly for playing computer games. But I did a bit of BASIC programming, too. | |
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| 8 The second machine I owned was a [Sharp MZ 3500](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ) which I was abandoned at my dad's workplace. Since there were no games available for that machine, I turned to programming - more BASIC [dBASE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase), and [Turbo Pascal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal). | |
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| 10 Later, I got in touch with [NeXTSTEP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP) but I never owned one of these stylish black boxes. However, hacking [Objective-C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C) really opened my mind to object oritented programming. | |
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| 12 After the death of NeXT I had a short episode on Macs (even owning a blue and white [Power Mac G3](http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/specs/powermac_g3_350_bl.html)) but I did not like the evolution of OSX into a consumer os so I turned to Linux on the desktop. | |
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| 14 Programming-wise I did what almost everybody did back in 1997 ... I tried [Java](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29) and although I did not like the language much, I stuck because the day job required Java. | |
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| 16 Today I'm still in the Java business but I also hack a bit in [Python](https://www.python.org/) and JavaScript. |