Tom Ruby
I started out in electronics because I loved making things work. I did this for some years, and making
the machine pick up the part from the feeder, do its test, turn the funnel to the correct bin and drop the part
was great fun. I found I had a knack for making the programs to do this, so after a few years, I went away to
university to get a degree in programming. I got two. I miss making things that work, but I've worked
in software for thirty-mumble years.
These days I work mainly in C#, .net and SQL and use C and C++ for embedded projects. I always have in mind
to get rich making some cool electronic gizmo, but this has not been an effective get-rick-quick scheme.