Wayne Hirata's Blog – June 2008 Archive (2)

if someone says you have a computer brain, that person is insulting you, saying you have the smarts of a relay switch.

What's happening with Perl, the jackknife of all kitchen sinks? I still learning and still liking it. ASP.Net is too weird. PHP is so inconsistent. Don't know Java or the other silly web languages.



Started out on the HP 2000E and HPBasic, pounding away at a teletype in Keller Hall. Then it was Fortran and punch cards on the IBM 370. Soon the retail personal computer appeared, TRS-80 and Apple II. Then IBM Personal Computer, 256K memory, dual floppy drives. Now it's FreeBSD, Apache,… Continue