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Do not trust too much my self-judgement about proficiency in the languages |
Do not trust too much my self-judgement about proficiency in the languages |
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table. My '''biggest defect''' is that having time I can't help writing too much. |
table. My '''biggest defect''' is that having time I can't help writing too much. |
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==About me and computers (long story)== |
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My first contact with a computer was when I was very young. A ZX Spectrum |
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entered our house. At the very beginning I only wanted to play. But it |
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happened that my father started to show me how nice is creating rather than |
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simply using... So I start learning Spectrum BASIC. A 1985 K&R C manual |
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(in italian) was on a bookshelf and I got used to browse it in a |
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sospicious way; I had a Forth interactive interpreter (and no Forth manual), |
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but nothing to try ''that'' "C"... |
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I started to take a look at Z80 assembly, but then a new computer entered |
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our house: a glorious Amiga500. I regressed and tried a lot of games, but |
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then got tired of them all and a friend gave me KickPascal... The digital |
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manual was in german and in order to be able to understand it I also |
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started to study german... But in the meantime I wrote ''my manual'' by |
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looking at examples and experimenting (all my Pascal knowledge was summarized |
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in two A4 sheets, for a total of 4 pages). One day an Amiga italian magazine |
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proposed articles for m68k assembly; and I began to get informations on |
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Amiga hardware and metal bashing. But soon I discovered how easy and wonderful |
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and less error prone was using system libraries (from assembly of course). |
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The old Amiga 500 was equipped with a harddisk; then it was ''upgraded'' |
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to an used Amiga 1200 (with a '030 GVP accelerator card, "big" harddisk...); |
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there were already PowerUP, Commodore gone away... but that ''old'' hardware |
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continued to give me a lot. The guy that sold that Amiga 1200 gave us also a |
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lot of software ''in bundle''. So for the first time I had a C compiler (SAS); |
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before, I had continued to study it (a lot of programs I wrote were translations |
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from C or AmigaE to assembly)... |
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At the university I was able to connect to the misterious |
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Internet for the first time... and touched "with hands" what I had only heard |
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about: Aminet. I put some of my ''better'' works together, did something |
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more and uploaded to Aminet... my first public release. The |
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''request collection'' was rather successful (according to my standards!) |
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so uploaded it (again) with added ''request tools'', and the a second |
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collection was shipped few months (or 1 month) later (in the meantime |
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someone gave me as gift a 56k modem; I entered the IRC world that way, |
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and strangely was less interested in the web...)... Aminet says that I uploaded |
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the second ''req collection'' in the year 2003, so we are at the end |
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(almost) of the history. |
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A sister of mine bought a laptop, with MS Windows Xp Home inside. I tried to |
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use it someway, but there was no reason to do so at home (I used the Amiga |
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also for university works, gnuplot, LaTeX...): |
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I decided that Amiga was better the first time I was ''forced'' to use |
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MS Windows 95 (and then other more recent versions of MS Windows), ... even |
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though university friends told me about installing GNU/Linux (but the laptop |
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wasn't mine...). It was the first (ugly) ''PC'' owned by someone near me: |
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of course it was not the first I used, as I've said previously (I also had |
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used a Red Hat at the university). |
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One sad day, Amiga felt ill. Time to think about the future? Sad future |
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for technologies, I believe so. Anyway... One cold day I get my sister's |
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laptop, a SuSE Linux 9.3 DVD given to me by a friend, and stolen 3 Gbytes |
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from the harddisk (they became 4Gbytes month later) of that laptop. |
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My story with GNU/Linux began. |
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One day my sister bought another laptop and sold the old one to me. It is |
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now my "home" machine. Of course I upgraded SuSE to OpenSuSE 10.2, but |
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since I like to ''play'' too much, the Xorg doesn't start anymore... |
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in order to try other distros, I've installed Mandriva 2008 (using this |
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until I succeed in fixing the other, but I think I will remove it instead), |
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and XUbuntu on another old laptop (Pentium III) a friend gave to me recently, |
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I use this one only for UAE (before installing XUbuntu I tried FreeBSD and |
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liked it, but I think I need more machines to do my tests and have all |
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the stuffs I want!) |
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In this year (2008) I finally get an ADSL flat connection and let my head |
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bang against a lot of funny or interesting or silly things (from wikis to |
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social networking... paradoxically I IRC-chat less than before now!) |
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Since I installed GNU/Linux, I expanded my languages list a lot, |
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having the possibility to have tons of interpreters and compilers easily |
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and fastly. |
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==Other interests and details== |
==Other interests and details== |
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nothing to do with medicine, alas; homonyms exist!). |
nothing to do with medicine, alas; homonyms exist!). |
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I have a ''personal'' (read: almost unuseful) site I created long time |
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Even though I've never gone too deep into the web before, I created and |
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ago, it grew, shrank, moved... but basically it is always the same. |
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maintained a personal site already in the Amiga-only time. Indeed I created |
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several personal sites, changing free hosting and other details... but from |
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a content point of view, I label it simply as ''my site''. |
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Since altogether with six friends we founded an association and bought a |
Since altogether with six friends we founded an association and bought a |
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I am interested in ray-tracing (POV Ray ... I prefer to write ''codes'' |
I am interested in ray-tracing (POV Ray ... I prefer to write ''codes'' |
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rather than a visual approach like Blender, and indeed I would like |
rather than a visual approach like Blender, and indeed I would like |
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to attend the POV Ray Contest IRTC, |
to attend the POV Ray Contest IRTC, which is back on Smalltalk/Seaside, |
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but the site still has bugs...!) and music composing (MIDI). |
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Since I |
Since I knew TeX / LaTeX, I've forgot any word processing program. TeX |
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brought me to the world of digital typesetting and, through |
brought me to the world of digital typesetting and, through |
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Metafont, to the hard world of font creation. I own the METAFONT Book |
Metafont, to the hard world of font creation. I own the METAFONT Book |
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very hard...) |
very hard...) |
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All my dreams about my maths and physics |
All my dreams about my maths and physics stuffs shipwrecked somewhere |
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in the past, when strange things happened. I have often a lot of time |
in the past, when strange things happened. I have often a lot of time |
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(more or less), and I spend it |
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on a computer, mainly reading web and programming and it is how I |
on a computer, mainly reading web and programming and it is how I |
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landed on this interesting wiki. |
landed on this interesting wiki. |
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==Languages I would like to push more on RC== |
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* Amiga E |
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* Fortran (>= 90/95) |
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* Octave |
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* Rexx/ARexx '''N''' |
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* 68k assembly (env.? AmigaOS:D) '''N''' |
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* R |
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* Metafont / (''mixing'' Metapost?) |
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* ((Prolog)) |
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* ((Lua)) |
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* ((Pascal)) |
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* (M4) |
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* (Postscript) |
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* (TeX/LaTeX) |
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* Smalltalk |
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* Objective-C |
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==Contact detail(s)== |
==Contact detail(s)== |