Earlier today, I posted this on WWWTXT:
I’ve never programmed in C, I’ll let you know how it works out sometime in 2013. ☯90FEB
Afterwards, I set out to find the poster and see if he had ever learned C. He turned out to be Internet pioneer Bob Munck! Here’s his response:
I wrote a bunch of C++ for my first web site, for DARPA in 1994 (it was the third government site and among the first couple hundred total). I was at the time deep in the Ada community, and C++ was so irrational by contrast that I flat-out hated it. Nowadays I write mostly PHP code and am resigned to the horrors of C-like languages.
Incredibly, he worked as a manager (aka the heavy) at the original Hypertext project at Brown University from 1967–73. He first logged into the net in the Fall of ‘72 [41 years ago!] and, although now retired, still responded to my email within an hour of receiving it.
It’s these moments that make me realize WWWTXT has a long life ahead. Thank you, Bob!
(Source: wwwtxt.org, via danielrehn)
