Today, I’m celebrating 33.22 years of Computer Programming in the C Programming Language! Currently, I have been programming in C on my iPhone for 2.69 years now using my 3.53 year-old Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard!
Hello World! Unlike when I had perfect eyesight, I’m only writing “code snippets” running through a networked compiler in the USA. I also had to adapt to using a Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard, as opposed to swiping left & right on a touchscreen-based keyboard. Since I was never coding graphical programs, I’m just continuing as if I’m still using the GNU C compiler in my old Debian GNU/Linux system. ☺️
Prior to New Year’s Day 2022, I was researching other computer programming languages besides what else I have (Swift, BASIC, FreeBASIC & VisualBASIC .NET), such as Go, Rust, C# or Quantum, but quickly realized I’m already having cognition issues due to being over 50 years old. Unfortunately, I’m not young anymore, so learning new programming languages, is a skill I no longer have. I had difficulty learning the basics of the Swift programming language.
Though the C programming language is now considered an obsolete language, especially since Dennis Richie had died in 2011 at the age of 70, I’m still happy coding in C! I also mastered the UNIX operating system, in which C is the standard. I only learned the basics of C++, but stayed with C over the decades, even when I ran GNU/Linux on a daily basis.
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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND.
A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003.
A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA.
RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics.
Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers.
Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle.
Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing!
My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs.
Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.
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