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So a lot of my early code is rather C in disguise than proper C++. Honestly, one of the most boring text I failed to read. Also the Stroustrup book is great if you cannot sleep. Thus, in 2004, when I started contributing to Simutrans, I was quite computer literate, but had zero ideas on OOP.
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The next big thing I am proud, is a software I am still using today: It was written in 1997 to 1999 to run on a 386 without compressor and 2 MB main memory under windows.
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In the next room were PCs with absolutely filled with Viruses, which were for "IT for Philosophers"! But they had Internet connection, so I could download ST software from the US at mind blowing 8 Bytes per second during the night (well whole the University had a 9600 baud connection). The only thing I learned was hacking Unix on that one. Almost unworkable slow, so the true nerd met at 22h in the evening, spawned 20 emacs until the network card overheated and the system rebooted with cleared memory.
It was a HP workstation with 8 X-terminals. (68k was also the base for the PamOS, where I learned about UTF-8 )įormal training was 1 Semester in University, IT for Physics, at the ripe age of 22.
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This combined highly optimised C and assembler (I even wrote a 30% faster replacement 32 bit division routine compared to the already optimised C-lib.) MC 68k assembler was great. My main contribution from that time is an Editor (PrED, sold about 100 times), and a viewer for TeX's DVI-files, which was mentioned in the 1990 LaTeX companion. But soon I ended up programming in C, since there was an IDE. I first programmed it in Basic, then Pascal (as soon as the school yard network provided a compiler). By chance it was an Atari ST, which we got with 30% rebate because my father somewhat knew Jack Tramiel (the founder) since he worked as Chief Concierge in the best hotel (then Hilton). Shortly after I also implemented a line drawing algorithm on a friend C64 in USDC Pascal were one could see the line emerging pixel by pixel. My parents set out anyway, and I wrote a Pascal "database" for keeping track of my sailing competition results on six A4 sheets of scribble paper, based on the book "Pascal Programming for the CDC6000" from the mid 1970ies from my home library. I wrote my first program in 1983 when stuck in an Austrian pension during a very rainy hiking holiday. He seemed quite impressed on it and I could have probably got a position for teaching IT and Open Source if the interview would not have been about Teaching Photonics at an Applied University.ĭid you learn programming as part of your physics background or did you learn it by yourself? He was very eager to to know more about it (actually he had looked up on Simutrans a lot!) and 1/4 or the interview derailed to Simutrans and "herding" open source projects. However, at my second to last interview in 2016, one of the committee members was from the IT department. From 2010 or so I put something like Simutrans coding coordinator into my CV under other activities, mostly to have more to show. I wrote job applications for almost 50 positions but was invited only four times, which is pretty normal in my field. After my PhD I stood in Japan (2000-2003), Berlin again to 2009, University of Cambridge 2012-2016, and from 2017 Nagoya.
In my case it involved studying physics at the TU Berlin in Germany, and from 1995 or so I worked on crystal growth of semiconductors like GaAs and GaN (see the Nobel prize of 2014 to my director). Science is a little like the old medieval crafts: You have to travel a lot until you find place you can settle.
But I teach anyway a little, because I like it.) Since I have recently got my tenure that will likely stay so. (Dedicated Professor means that I do not have to teach. I am a Dedicated Professor Nagoya University in Japan. So if you found this on the internet, chances are high it is connected to me. I am Markus Pristovsek, which is a pretty unique name. Who are you? Where do you live? What did you study? Where are you working or have worked on the past?
You will find that many questions are similar to those from Hajo's interview, so you have the oportunity to compare the points of view of the two most influential Simutrans developers.įirst of all, introduce yourself. It is now the turn of developer Markus Pristovsek (known as prissi) to answer some questions! Without him, we would not be here today celebrating 25th years of development. Simutrans 25th Anniversary #4: Markus Pristovsek, the Adoptive Father.Īfter Hajo left Simutrans, a man took care of continuing development - and has continued to do so for over 17 years (more than double the time Hajo was involved with Simutrans!).