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[Antony Barry]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

> I wasn't casting aspersions on your son at all -

I didn't think you were. I was just showing off!

>  in fact he must be bloody genius
> compared to me ;)

You sound very smart but Andrew did write his first compiler when he 
was 16 for a school project. It was a Modula 2 compiler written in C.  
He reverse engineered it from a compiler which he had on disc but no 
documentation. He was proud (!!) of the fact that there was only one 
comment in the code which I think was there to let him go to a 
particular spot with the editor. In 1994 when he was 21 he wrote the 
code to put the Commonwealth budget on the web. He thinks in algorithms 
but three little daughters are starting to slow him up!

Through university he only got Ds and HDs except in his last year when 
he only got a credit in one subject but he was working full time and at 
night to interface the Commonwealth Parliament's internal email system 
with that at electoral offices.

I find him a bit scary but love him dearly. The rest of the family are 
rather fun too http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/children.shtml

Tony

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