Steve,
>>Remind me, what kind of programming do you do?<<
The list is very long, since nowadays, tasks and projects
are on all sorts of systems and platforms. I've basically
have to be very flexible. When I have a choice, I digress
to Perl and IDL which is the scientific Interactive Data
Language that is very popular in scientific data visulization.
I've done Fortran, C, getting into some C++, tons of Perl,
some X/Windows programing, massive amounts of IDL.
I've used UNIX, Win95, Win98, NT3.5, VMS, MVS, and others.
Lately, I'm setting up 3-5 various Web Sites with massive
data viewing capabilities.
These include IBM Mainframe, VMS, Intel boxes, and UNIX
workstations.
One thing I like about my job is that much of the time I
can pick my own language and design the task completely
on my own. If I do so, I prefer to stay with C and Perl
scripting, etc...
Does this tell you anything?
btw...I do scientific programming/analysis. Sometimes, I
play data researcher with my Statistics background, sometimes
I get involved in writing the research papers (don't like
to write papers, just want to code, so I can get the job
done quick. At this point, I'm familiar with a few dozen
major pieces of software. They need constant tweaking. When
I first got here, I spent the first two years going over stuff
line by line. The benefit is that whenever a change is needed
I know instantly how to get it done. I don't have to
research the code for 2 or 3 days.),....
joe |
