"Hello" from Bill Gathan

[Joel Meulenberg]

See message from Bill below...  
(He's working at NewSouth Communications in South Carolina.)

--- Bill Gathen <bgathen at newsouth.com> wrote:
> From: Bill Gathen <bgathen at newsouth.com>
> To: "'joelm at blueribbon.com'" <joelm at blueribbon.com>
> Subject: RE: Finally in place...
> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:42:14 -0400 
> 
> Thanks, Joel.
> 
> Java is cool.  Quite a paradigm-shift from Perl, though.  Like moving
> from
> the "Wild West" to "Brave New World", where nothing is too difficult
> because
> you just push buttons and use the built-in libraries.  I don't expect
> a
> "drag-and-drop" IDE for Perl anytime soon!
> 
> The first major project I had here was a two-month data migration
> that
> required lots of Perl hacking.  The second was a web-based
> ReportWriter
> application that basically accepts a pseudo-XML configuration file,
> prompts
> the user for SQL variables and formats the output in either HTML or a
> tab-delimited, Excel-compatible layout.  If it weren't so ugly and
> convoluted, I'd sent you guys a copy.  Since then, it's been Java
> projects
> of one size or another.
> 
> We've bought a house in Columbia, so the 3-hour round trip (Monday
> through
> Wednesday) will continue until I quit.  I work from home Thursday &
> Friday,
> which lightens the load quite a bit.  Besides, it's amazing what you
> can get
> used to.
> 
> Say hi to everybody,
> Bill


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