Has lived in Ireland, South Africa, the UK, the Netherlands. Is now retired in France.
Has learnt and forgotten more programming languages than programmers who started their careers in the 21st century know to exist.
Can boast as careers:
- An academic, teaching linguistics, with two years' break as a conscript lexicographer.
- A university administrator, responsible for producing student statistics that directly determined the university's state subsidy.
- Various IT roles, ending in a long stint supporting trading systems in merchant banking.
- Amateur musician (bassoon).
Has programmed in Python for 25 years, starting with version 1.5.2. Author of a book on on writing Lua scripts against the Aion API.
