[Charlug] What are you?

[Pierre Abbat]

On Saturday 28 March 2009 16:52:19 Leam Hall wrote:
> Informal poll at the March meeting: "Are you a systems person, a
> programmer, or something else?"
>
> Came out to be 5-3 Systems vs programmers with a lot of enterprise level
> experience. There's nothing wrong with being either, both, or something
> totally different but it might be nice to see what sort of talent we
> have in the group.
>
> So let's continue the poll. Would you describe yourself as a systems
> person, a programmer, or something else? The latter might include DBA,
> project manager, recruiter, or something else entirely.
>
> For the record I'm a systems guy and wannabe programmer in Python, PHP,
> C, and shell.  :)

Programmer with some systems experience with mail and web servers. My current 
projects (none of which I have time for because of work and school) include 
Bezitopo, a topographic map program; Starfish, a normal random number 
generator; Mumzel, a data transmission code; FPtest, a research project about 
floating point arithmetic; Shanbit, which extracts pure information out of a 
stream of arbitrary-distribution random numbers; Wormcode, a data 
transmission code; and 23z, a data compression algorithm. I've also written 
some web sites with database back ends.

Pierre