User since: May 31, 2005 at 03:02 UTC (20 years ago) Last here: Aug 07, 2025 at 01:35 UTC (9 hours ago) Experience: 85916 Level: Saint (26) Writeups: 7480 CPAN ID: GRANDPA Location: Dunedin, New Zealand User's localtime: Aug 07, 2025 at 22:41 NZST Scratchpad: View Member of: janitors, punsters For this user: Search nodes

Granddaughter October 2020

The nodes I enjoyed posting most are Ook interpreter and A BASIC interpreter to run StarTrek
My most spectacularly successful "code in reply" is Fast common substring matching
A lot of people seem to like Utility to capture parameters and perform a task
Some sage advice :-) for SoPW posters who would like answers: I know what I mean. Why don't you?
and a meditation: Flipin good, or a total flop?
and: Ta Da - a PerlMonks markup savy editor

I used to be an electronics technician for the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ). I'm now part of a software development team writing data capture and analysis software for the product that our company sells. I'm mostly writing C++ embedded firmware as part of the hardware development team, but writing a lot of Perl tools that are used in a wide range of roles in the company. I've used SC/MP, RCA COSMAC (CDP1802), Z80, 8051, 6800 and 6502 assembler, Forth, Basic (many flavours), Logo, SmallTalk, Pascal, Algol 60, Fortran, C, C++, VBA, Prolog, COBOL, JS‎crip‎t, various calculator programming languages, JavaS‎crip‎t, Python, Java and Perl (and forgotten most of them). I started using Perl in May 2005 to convert a Word document to TWiki (with pretty successful results) and joined PerlMonks at the end of May.

Oh, and if you haven't already, do read The strictures, according to Seuss!

Monks I've met

• Panda: a son.
• jkva: Visited New Zealand for a month and hung out with us for two weeks.
• StommePoes: See comment for jkva.
• InfiniteMonkey: a workmate
• snoopy: a recent Oz expat