Welcome to the home of my attempts at writing programs.
I have been programing since the late 60s, when a progressive high school teacher arranged for some students to have limited access to a mainframe at a bank. Programing then consisted punch cards, line printers and FORTRAN.
While at University in the mid 70s doing my electrical engineering degree I managed to get a final year project programing one of the earliest microprocessors in the country. This machine code programing (numbers! none of this assembler stuff) led to a continuing interest in programing that is close to the machine level.
I have used Pascal while doing Computer Science papers and have dabbled with Basic. When these failed to fulfill my desire I did a small amount of Assembler programing before finding true bliss with C.
The move from C to C++ and an object based approach to the world, while at times traumatic was grabbed with glee. Put it in a box, give it a personality, and let it talk to its neighbours and relatives. That's life really!
Now with my job at the University of Otago I have oportunity to persue programminng in both C++ and HTML with server side and client side scripting and sql database access. Some of the results can be seen on the School of Physiotherapy home page.
I am now taking my first shaky steps into .NET. In many ways I find this a step backwards as limitations seem to exceed usability. Peer pressure says this is the way to go though so we will see. I still feel happier with registers and pointers and the like though.