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* Low-grade [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pythonista Pythonista] who tends to write Python which resembles APL. | * Low-grade [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pythonista Pythonista] who tends to write Python which resembles APL. | ||
* Finds doing C, with all its pointers and memory allocation, therapeutic. | * Finds doing C, with all its pointers and memory allocation, therapeutic. | ||
* Studied with computer graphics pioneer mentioned somewhere in [https://archive.org/details/ted-nelson-computer-lib-dream-machine/mode/2up here] | |||
== Where == | == Where == | ||
* His hometown is in an uninteresting cold city in North America. | * His hometown is in an uninteresting cold city in North America. | ||
* Avoided university | * Avoided graduating from university on account of a lack of funds. | ||
* Spent his prime working for an APL timesharing company, struck off on his own, then somehow wound up in Europe. | * Spent his prime working for an APL timesharing company, struck off on his own, then somehow wound up in Europe. | ||
* Working first with APL, now mostly without, since the late 1970s. | * Working first with APL, now mostly without, since the late 1970s. | ||