When there was
a priesthood of computer operators, Ivan Van Laningham was a member; he
helped create the Y2K bug. In college, he was an anthropology major, acquiring
a continuing interest in archaeology and archaeoastronomy. He is now a
software engineer, but has also served in the Vietnam
war, worked for the U.S. Postal Service, been a joat for a mobile home
park, obtained his forklift operator’s license, lost his shirt as a luthier
and clerked in a bookstore where he worked for his future wife. Since meeting
Unix in 1983 when hired as a hardware technician for a company later purchased
by Motorola, he has been programming in C, C++, Java and Python for a living.
His other computer languages include 1401 Autocoder,
COBOL, RPG, Sinclair Basic, PostScript and Lisp. He has been programming
in X Windows since X11R2. His heart has been with Python since encountering
Programming Python at the University of British Columbia bookstore.
He used to attend the Maya Meetings
(http://www.mayavase.com/mayameet.html)
in Austin, Texas, a multi-day international conference and workshop on Mayan
Hieroglyphic Writing, but has not found it feasible in the last couple of years.
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