Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:42:24 -0400 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: newbie <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <359A911F.CD72681F@netunlimited.net>
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I'm switching carrers at 42 from professional chef to programmer. Restaurants not very family-friendly. My wife does Novell/NT/Win programming/sysadmin and she said I was a smart fella, I oughta try it. Did the quickie two-year curriculum. Lots of Windows-Visual Basic and whatnot. COBOL fer cryin' out loud. C++, ouch- a real language for a change. IBM assembly language, which I liked. RPG on an AS/400--never, ever, ever as long as I live; I'll go back to cooking first. And one lonely little course in UNIX. I was hooked. Jeez, DOS with teeth. The instructor was this ancient retired AT&T guy who'd been doing it since the mid-70's. I've had one box or another running freebsd for a couple years, but no time. Taught myself Visual FoxPro for my senior project, which I just finished. I don't have to go back to work till this fall so I'm furiously doing all the UNIX and C I can. I'll do FoxPro if I absolutely have to but people in the business tell me that given the labor market in this area (North Carolina US), even a greenhorn like me can just about pick the shop I want. It most likely won't be a FreeBSD shop but it will be a UNIX shop. Even if it's Y2K to start. I'm never going back. UNIX is too cool. Anyone who wants to do that M$ API black-box .dll who-knows-what's-in-there stuff is welcome to it. No thanks. And I look forward to the day when I may be able to contribute to the FreeBSD project. I owe the folks who have brought it this far. Thanks. Pardon my soapbox. And, newbie that I am, if I ever send someone undesired personal email, I hope they will let me know how I screwed up and how to fix it so it never, ever happens again. Now I'm terrified. Chris Browning brownicm@netunlimited.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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