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Matthew O. Persico

Wow. I did not realize this was a social/blogging site. Ok.

Hi. My name is Matt. I am a programmer. Yeah that sounds like an addiction. It is. I like to program. It's why I've never been a team leader or a manager or anything like that.

I'm a Perl programmer. Oh I can do Python, but, ugh, shudder; sue me. I have done lots of SQL, C, Java (more ugh) and going WAY back some C++, Fortan, Basic and RPG II.

For some strange reason I am really hooked on source code control. I have written some sort of wrappers around every source control system I have ever worked with:
CMS (extra credit if you can tell me what OS that ran on), RCS, SCCS, CVS, ClearCase, Perforce, SVN and git. In fact, my git wrappers total 58 shell scripts and functions whose 'wc' stats are

8328 25985 212823

not to mention a Perl scripts whose purpose is to take the comments in a Changelog formatted file and turn them into the commit message of a commit. On the fly. During the commit. Hmm, perhaps my git setup should be my first post.

Anyway, that's all for now. Time for bed. Cheers.