[…] The rest, is as they say history. Since Commodore went belly up, I begrudgingly became a full fledged PC user and grew accustomed to Windows. I started tinkering with C on my own in high school, using a bootleg bordland compiler. Later I took several programming classes and was hooked. When I started college, I switched to Java (which I liked more than C) and discovered Linux. In fact, my first steps as a Linux user were chronicled on this very blog. […]