Guenther Flaig

As the naming here doesn't support characters of the international codepage outside of the English alphabet, here is my first name spelled in traditional German manner.

 Günther 

(for non Germans - th here just pronounces as t. For the umlaut ü some day I'll come up with an English word containing this sound)

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If I understood right, I am expected to experience a culture shock here - we'll see, I did have a lot of them in my life.

The first one was, participating in a Fortran course in university in 1969, getting the impression of UNDERSTANDING what was explained there. Culture shock after culture shock followed - programming didn't include punching cards anymore in commercial environment: the punching department did this much more efficiently.

End of the 1970tes heavy canned tubes - like a TV - arrived on our desks, punch cards to be replaced by codelines on a screen. No chance to throw down the cards and make a mess out of your coding.

Early '80ies - PCs and similar marched in, Commodore 64, Z80, Amiga and whatever were their names some of them used to be called IBM PC compatible.

Early '90ies for me personally - for others I guess several years earlier - the ideas of Unix appeared, with ideas, that were surprising for a former mainframer, things like output streams, pipes, filters.

Few years later, The Web was the new thing, slowly starting with ftp, gopher and those things, exploding with WWW, and HTML. Luckily the feeling of a language like HTML didn't differ from things like SGML and TeX, to be owed the formatting thing, that was part of HTML at that time.

The next culture shock was the most hurting - OO-Programming does see me not coding anymore, I am not sure, if I could survive here.

Absolutely open minded I try to get familiar with this WIKI, surprised and disappointed, not to have met it before.

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