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30: Bartosz Milewski

The Haskell Interlude

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How I Learned to Programming at Microsoft

I bought a computer when I was already, you know, a physicist, but I didn't do any work as a physicist with computers. So that was just in my free time. I started writing programs and first in basic and basic. Then I learned a little bit of assembly language. And at that point I applied to Microsoft. They had an idea to hire physicists because they thought a physicist can actually learn programming very quickly and be productive. That was in the 90s. End of 80s, beginning of 90s.

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