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Could somebody from this site please reaffirm my faith in humanity and inform me that there is at least one person here who is NOT, and never has been in their life, a computer programmer :)

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), September 25, 1999

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Hahahahahaha. I am a computer programmer, and until very recently, I even used to be a game programmer. Please don't ask me for game titles, because the games I had to write all the time (hint: Almost everything in those games is pink, and the main person in those games must be the most intelligent human being on the planet since she can do and has done everything; she must hold dozens of degrees ("When I was in ... (fill in anything and EVERYTHING you like) school, ...") were one of the reasons I switched jobs.

Actually, I thought I was one of the exceptions here. I thought most people here were NOT programmers. But maybe I am completely wrong...

Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), September 25, 1999.


While I took the most elementary courses in college, I could hardly be considered by any stretch of the imagination as a programmer. And those courses were from my ancient past...back in the days when the student union hall contained games like Sea Wolf 2, Asteroids, and Space Invaders. Now for those of you who can do the math, you'll have a gauge on how old I am! :p

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), September 26, 1999.


I was a programmer for 6 months, I'm more adapt at breaking software then creating it. I now work in System Test.

Keep looking for a non programmer. :)

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), September 26, 1999.


Heh, I'm not a programmer, though I ~did~ take several courses in C++ in school before I decided that I didn't want to be a coder. Now I do tech support instead. Is that close enough to discount me? ;)

Brian

-- Brian McLean (bmclean84@hotmail.com), September 26, 1999.


I'm guilty.

I was a programmer, AND I was a game programmer for the c64. After that I programmed PCs. It's no longer my job though. Now I just program for the fun of it...

-- Mark Longridge (cubeman@iname.com), September 26, 1999.



Forgive me too .... but I'm a programmer !!!

I used to code in various languages (from Assembler to C++), and right now I'm developing Web application for one of the biggest Italian car companies (no...it's not Ferrari....it's Fiat (ever heard!?!)).

And when MARP (and my wife) give me the time, I code simple apps for my utility.

-- Cicca (cicca@writeme.com), September 27, 1999.


Gameboy is Guiltius Maximus...

Started programming in 1990 doing GWBasic - turned to QuickBasic in 1994 I think... just started Visual Basic last year... doing C now this year...

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), September 27, 1999.


oh no ... seems we're really all programmers. but: am i a non-programmer when i trust you, that i've been a game programmer more than 10 years ago??? in those 'good old' days there were systems like c-64 and atari st ...

-- Kiko (christian@rduch.de), September 27, 1999.

I'm a born again programmer, only in Basic and a little C++, but now only on the web (does that still count???) It comes with the territory that this place (I-net) has to be accessed via an electronic device. For the games, I personally wish to see NO LIMIT as to how many games you MUST play. As the original rules stated, play as few or as many of the games you want...

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), September 27, 1999.

Guilty as charged as well. Although as I currently head up the JADE Support Team I don't do as much programming currently as I used to and any that I do do is of course naturally done in JADE. ;-)

BeeJay. Discover JADE

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), September 27, 1999.



It seems that the 2 french people of the MARP ( the excellent Phil Lamat and I ) are lost and isolated among a community of skilled computer programmers. We' re not , and never have been, programmers, and in fact, we only know some simple words of Basic to correctly use some math calculators !

-- lagavulin (darre@club-internet.fr), September 27, 1999.

Programmers Rule! I used to be a programmer, but over the last few years merged that skill with systems integration. The twist for me is that most of my programming experience is in multimedia. Bonus points to anyone who knows LINGO!

-- Pat (laffaye@ibm.net), September 28, 1999.

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