Re: [PHP] the state of the PHP community

On 10-07-29 10:18 PM, David McGlone wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:14 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
>> Early high school I used to program in basic on a TRS-80. Oh how I loved
>> saving my programs to audio cassette. Later in high school I learned
>> pascal and then later qbasic. Later still I studied computer science and
>> was exposed to many different languages  C, C++, Smalltalk, Java,
>> Scheme, Prolog, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, VRML, SQL that I remember. When
>> I finished university I walked straight into a PHP job knowing not an
>> iota of PHP. I came up to speed the first week and fell in love with it.
>> That was around March 2000. The company there always used Java also, as
>> part of a desktop suite to manage the web content. Towards the end of
>> 2002 they began an effort to create a Java based web framework to
>> parallel their PHP framework and so I used Java more at that time. Then
>> the dot com crash caught up with them and layoffs ensued.
>>
> What High School did you go to? What year? As far as I remember when I
> was in HS, nothing about computers was offered. this was back in '88.

I was attending the Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof, 
British Columbia, Canada in 1989 when I was learning Pascal. Now that I 
think of it more deeply, it wasn't Qbasic in high schoool, it was Watcom 
Basic while attending Timmins High & Vocational School in Timmins, 
Ontario, Canada in 1990 or 1991. Qbasic was at home :) Actually, I'm not 
sure about Timmins for the Watcom Basic, it might have been Lockerby 
Composite in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. I attended 4 different high 
schools. Some if it is blurry now :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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