I've been playing and working with linux since about slackware 2 in '95 or 96. In a roundabout way that landed me my current job. My title is systems analyst, but what I do is mostly sysadmin stuff.
I bear approximately the same relation to the term "programmer" that Gomer Pyle does to the term "mechanic." I taught myself perl by copying and pasting stuff out of the llama book and the camel book. I've written a sack full of perl scripts for this and that over the years. My code would probably make a real programmer puke, but it gets the job done. I've dabbled with C, C++, and Qt, not enough to do anything really useful, but I'm still learning.
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