Tom Chappell<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> 1/</p><p>I'm a long-time computer programmer living in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmSprings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmSprings</span></a>, California.</p><p>I actually programmed FORTRAN and COBOL professionally back in the day (sometimes on punch cards!), quickly followed by C on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> in 1975, then C++, Java, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scala</span></a>, and currently <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoLang</span></a>. I also like and have written quite a bit of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Clojure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clojure</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a>, though not for money. </p><p>I wrote up a story about my first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scala</span></a> experience here: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tomchappell/109311684682010904" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@tomchappell/1</span><span class="invisible">09311684682010904</span></a></p><p>Still going strong -- back off, bugs.</p>