Why program?
Programing is
something that took up years ago as a hobby when I first started
to play around with Linux. Back then, it was a basic
requirement to use most of the Linux distros
it seemed.
At first I, I had to get to accustomed to the whole notion of computer
languages, source code, compilers and so fourth and that can be
hard thing when you are trying to learn on your own. Fortunately
for me, Sun Microsystems released
the Java programing language
around that time. Java, unlike most of the other programing
languages (C, Tcl/Tk, Perl) I was playing around with, provided
a very strait forward way to write programs. A few books,
web sites, and many, many hours later, I started to get a feel for the
language and the type of programs that can be created with it and I
loved it. From that point forward, I made it a point to try
to apply my programing skills to my research work. Initially, the
programs created were simple and didn't really do much, but as
time went on, I started to create programs that I now find
indispensable. Indispensable because they are all in a sense
'Task Oriented". They are created to do a certain task, but do
it extremely well. The realization of just how much help these
programs have been to me, encouraged me to starting up my
own company, Instras Technologies,
to deliver custom software solutions to small research labs.