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             <h2>Programming</h2>
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+          <p>
+            Coding has been my favorite pastime since I was a kid. Starting
+            with a very simple programmable calculator, I advanced via C-64 and
+            C-128 to IBM-compatible PCs. In the golden C-64 days, I used to
+            program in Commodore BASIC, then went on to Borland Turbo Pascal
+            for MS-DOS, Visual Basic for Applications, a little Python and some
+            PHP, and mostly Ruby on Linux-based systems and C# on Windows in
+            recent years, not to forget HTML/CSS and HAML. I also have some
+            experience in R as well as systems automation with Ansible. In
+            fact, I use Ansible to manage my personal laptop and servers as
+            well as some family computers.
+          </p>
           <p>
             A selection of my projects:
           </p>