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I was an applications programmer until I quit working (by choice) 4 years ago. I was a PoliSci major, but got into Statistics in graduate school and fell in love with computers. I studied Fortran and lots of stat packages in school, but got a job working with the Prime Information database system and their proprietary programming language, InfoBasic. (It's since morphed into Universe.) It's not very well known and I suspect it's dying out, but I think it's a great database and language to work with.

I was doing mostly VB/Access programming for the last few years of my career. I found the database setup very clumsy after Information, but the graphic stuff is fabulous. I also did a lot of "code behind Excel" which I think is really cool. (And this is from someone who truly believes MicroSoft is the evil empire. I'm typing this on a Mac.)

I thought I'd miss programming when I left it, but I haven't for the past 4 years. The past month or so, though, I've been thinking up a database and programs for recipes and shopping. I can't get anything like Information or VB on my Mac, so I guess I'm going to learn C. Oh, goody.

Okay, this has been really, really off-topic, but what the heck, it's the weekend. So, what are "Mad Libs"?

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Edited by Sand (09/24/05 11:52 AM)

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