"Programming is like arts. The craft can be taught, but creativity must come elsewheres."
I love autumn in a German forest, I relax by playing Liszt, Debussy or Grieg and enjoy teaching skiing in winter. And between all that, I do some new product development to make a living.
20 years experience in programming from Fortran to C++ to Java to C# to F#
You can reach me at Twitter, by mail abel.braaksma@exselt.net, on my blog Under My Hat, my outsourcing and consultancy firm Abrasoft or our upcoming XSLT 3.0 Streaming processor Exselt.
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