Shakespeare, Satellites, Java and foojay.io

learning programming with PDP-8, the landscape with sinus and cosinus curves, C 64 for navy work, early PC for 35k, translating fortran to Basic, math is great to describe universe as a machine, saving soldiers with equations, mathematics can analyze patterns from the past to predict the future, Java Virtual Machine constantly optimises itself, recognising patterns from the msx satellite's data, MSX was constantly scanning for missiles, algorithms for speed, translating math to programs, enjoying William Shakespeare, James Joyce and Dante, editing books for oreilly and wrox, java.net podcasts at JavaOne, blogging for BEA, Sun, Intel, AOL, JVM is genius, GraalVM is amazing, foojay.io becomes the new java.net 2.0, Geertjan Wielenga was hired to create foojay.io,