Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5124

Xah Lee, I went through some of your web site, because of time couldn't examine (but a few) code guides. Read all you philosophy pages though, even about languages I didn't know. I took a course in my Mechanical Engineering study days, an elective, based on buttembly lang with a hex input keypad, no saves had to be right the first time. Before that, I did several fortran programs and an array of HP (Hewlet Packard, reverse polish) scientific programs. This was my senior year and I failed that clbutt. The instructor was obnoxious and that clbutt (credits) prevented me from getting my degree (by 3 credits). Now acording to Pavlofs dog theory I should not have wanted to persue any of these buttembly codes in the future. As it turns out, I threatend the dean with a suit, no extended symester, got out with a 3.4 gpa, got a z80a machine, wrote a dissasembler within 6 months, wrote a commercial program in buttembly 6 months later, wrote a spreadsheet program 6 months later. From there I wrote a program called Action Memo, a few years later (1985) that is something called "Act" now, licensed by Lotus and Microsoft. Stolen from me in an Ashton Tate-PC World contest which I only placed 2nd. I won a software bundle, imagin that. But concept and sourse was all they needed. Now I'm scratchin out a living having worked for Quaterdeck, Microsft, McAfee, Symantec. I applied Perl just over a year ago, the latest, after drivers, large scale apps, gui, com, java. I've written over 14 million lines of code in 20 years and when I write in performance mode I rember back to the days when I wrote TSR's because I don't think in terms of macro or Perl. I know what the buttembly is and man.. that never changes. I'm very afraid of how "hype" affects new, young programmers. Larry Wall didn't do so much with Perl, I could have done it in my sleep. I may do something better, you never know man!!