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[Chris Krum]

Hi,
I'm Chris Krum. I'm a long time lurker on this list. I've made it to 
one meeting. (Two if you count the time I accidentally showed up on 
Doug's birthday when we had that mix up about Feb. 31) The meeting was 
Scott's presentation about fuzzy logic. (Or was it fuzzy navel's, I 
forget?:-)

I live around 23rd Ave. and Union Hills but I work at 3rd Ave. and 
Washington so I can make meetings at either end of the valley. However, 
my wife is rather ill so I usually come home and take over with the 
kids after work.

I've been using perl since '95 and I love it. At work, we were using a 
WordPerfect for Unix installation to create all of our outgoing 
communications and it was a disaster. In '99 I talked my bosses into 
replacing the whole mess with some perl programs and it's been so 
reliable, we've been expanding it ever since. (My colleagues want to 
ring my neck though, since they all want to learn Java and don't like 
perl's syntax.)

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell.

Look forward to meeting people.

Chris.

On Jun 11, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Victor Odhner wrote:

> Doug, could you jot down a quick list of chores needing doing?
>
> Also, it's probably time to review who we are and why we're here.  Can
> anyone tell us how many people have been subscribing to the list, how
> many have been making it to meetings, and where they live?  Maybe we
> should all check in with some profile information, including geography.
>   I'll start.
>
> I have not made any meetings yet, but have benefited from the list from
> time to time.  I live at Thunderbird Rd. and the SR51 and work 8 miles
> east of there at Raintree and the 101, so my convenient reach for
> meetings and GTs is sort of an oval with foci at the Scottsdale and Sky
> Harbor airports.
>
> Personal profile:  I am a seasoned Unix programmer and use a dual boot
> XP/Linux system at home.  I programmed in Burroughs/Unisys ALGOL from
> 1968-1980, in Honeywell COBOL and PL/I from 1981-1995, in Unix C and
> shells since 1988, and in Perl for 11 years.  I'm now mostly in C with
> bits of shell and Perl; anything ad hoc I will definitely do in Perl.  
> I
> did Perl CGIs almost exclusively during 2000-2003, and know enough to 
> do
> anything I need to do in Perl.  But I only rank as a "Perl User"
> according to Tom Christiansen's rankings:
>
>    <http://www.redfolder.net/purelith/perl_mastery.html>
>
> ... with a touch of "Perl Adept"; but I do not aspire to most of the
> attributes of a "Hacker", "Guru" or "Wizard".  In response to the last
> line of the "Wizard" definition, for me "the game" is always automating
> a business process.  Many of my co-workers, who specialize in C and 
> Java
> and VB, come to me with Perl questions; so apparently I do more with
> Perl than most people.  But I often Google for simple pointers.
>
> I wrote an object oriented inference engine in 1984 in Honeywell TEX
> just for fun; but I have not done much with formal objects, though I do
> build some three- and four-level object structures using references.  I
> have never programmed in modperl.  For recreation I play the guitar
> (folk, country and campfire Christian), and ride my recumbent bike
> around the Valley.  I'd like to teach English as a Second Language.
>
> Thanks,
> Vic
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