Re: Delphi marketing manager..

From: Mike Slinn (mslinn_at_mslinn.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:25:54 -0800

Dan Barclay wrote:
> "Mike Slinn" <mslinn@mslinn.com> wrote in message
> news:4243cdcf@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>
>>I thought Logo (Turtle Graphics) was used for teaching kids programming. I
>>remember studying Pascal from the book by Nicklas Wirth in one of my
>>university computer courses in 1975. The UCSD p-system was just getting
>>started then, I think, and hadn't become well known yet. Today's Delphi
>>language, which admittedly has its roots as an Object Pascal, has as much
>>resemblance to Pascal as Haskell does to Prolog.
>
>
> I'll be danged. I was afraid you were going to be another Kid Marketeer
> with bright ideas and no experience or history.
>
> I'm certainly glad I was wrong about that!
>
> Later,
> Dan (BSEE '74)

I am also an EE, and for many years was a registered P. Eng. in Canada.
  Software always my strong suit; I moved from hardware/software systems
and designed my last board in 1981.

One of my projects (as a contractor) was to design and implement a
custom compiler and an interpreter for an IC chip test language in 1978,
written in 6809 structured assembler. I got into LISP big time for
quite a while, and published a tutorial and a how-to series that were
syndicated in 3 magazines. I found computer graphics interesting and
worked on graphics systems for the display system of a non-contact
inspection system for nuclear power plants; designed and marketed a 2D
CAD program in the days before AutoCAD; conceived and implemented 3D
mine design software and more. I've done a bunch of other things
besides programming, including management, teaching, writing (and yes,
marketing.)

My resume doesn't show all the languages, packages and technologies I
worked with over the years, there isn't any point in mentioning obsolete
technology.

I am particularly interested in technical business strategy, and how to
work with community to leverage resource for mutual benefit. Good karma
returns.

Mike

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