Paul Barry recently worked out that he has been programming for close to a quarter century, a fact that came as a bit of a shock. In that time, Paul has programmed in lots of different programming languages, lived and worked in two countries on two continents, got married, had three kids (well. his wife Deirdre actually had them, but Paul did play his part), completed a . and . in Computing, written two other books, written a bunch of technical articles for Linux Journal, and managed not to lose his hair. a situation that, sadly, may in fact be changing