Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Steve, this is a really informative and useful article. Thank you so much for writing it!
Or, another way to look at the article and home page...
A programming language pitch that focuses on the key design features - check!
A well-organized site that leaves code to the "learn" page, where language elements are really well-explained - check!
Code of conduct, which primarily solicits participation in a polite, constructive and professional fashion - check!