Benjamin H Boruff

Hi! I'm Ben, a programmer and unix system administrator.

About Me

I've been "playing" with computers since my great-grandmother bought me a C64 for my birthday back in 1983. My first language was Commodore BASIC V2; it was built-in to the C64's ROM. To do much of anything you had to learn a little BASIC, and type the commands in the repl.

I loved it.

Pascal was my next language. It was probably 1985 or '86 in "Computer Math" class in high school when I learned a little Pascal on the Apple II. It was probably UCSD Pascal.

I live in San Diego, so that's just another nice thing about living here in addition to the weather!

Then in my Computer Science classes at IU I learned MIT Scheme, ANSI C, 68k assembly, and a little C++.

I'm not sorry to say that I'm not a fan of C++.

In the work-a-day world of web development I have used Python(Flask), PHP(Laravel), and Ruby(Rails).

Lately, I have been revisiting Pascal, and language compiling -- lexing, parsing, etc.