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IA_AU_ECO

Hello, I am forty-three years old, I live in Meaux en Seine et Marne, about forty minutes from Paris by train. I discovered computer science alongside the vision of WarGames. I read "Joystick" for a very long time, at the same time as I was in middle school and high school. I am self taught, I learned to use Java, C ++, Linux on my own, the hard way
Like all geeks my age, I was fed up with my Windows 95 crashing (in addition to Bordland's software prices and their artificial limitations). So I discovered free software via the LOGIN magazine which talked about computing outside Microsoft and when I discovered that my Windows 2000 license was incompatible with my Quake 3, I decided to take a Suse distribution box and O 'reilly books

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Bernard Baker

That's sounds like a technological adventure.

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Matt Anderson

Borland. Happy memories!

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I no longer have a bitter memory of JBuilder, very expensive, limited, the enterprise versions, the only managers of the server version of Java costing the price of a kidney, more than twenty later, Visual Studio Code, free, under Linux, yes, we have come a long way