I'm a guy. On the Internet. I should get out more.

I've used a bunch of languages over the past 20+ years: BASIC, SPSS, IBM 360 JCL, DCL, Fortran, assembly languages: Z-80, CDC 6600/Cyber, m68000, 6809, 8086 (yecch), MIX; Pascal, APL, sh, bash, csh, Snobol, SIMULA, C, awk, Concurrent Euclid, pbdl, C++, LISPs: Emacs, tiny, Common, Scheme; FP, Prolog, Forth, Modula-2, ADA, Haskell, S, Objective-C, Postscript, SQL, TCL, Eiffel, Perl, R, Java, Javascript, Python and Ruby. I dislike 8086 because of the segmented architecture and Perl for its write-only property, but I like Lisp, C, Objective-C and NeXT/Apple's frameworks and kits (Cocoa and more), and Python for their power and simplicity.

I also enjoy teaching, data structures and algorithms for fun and profit, and figuring out how things work.

Douglas Hofstader's Gödel, Escher, Bach is my favorite book, and Kurt Vonnegut may be my favorite author, or at least he came up with the line I've paraphrased into my motto: "Dammit babies, be kind to each other!"*

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*Actual Quote: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'”