I did mostly scripting as in sysadmin work. No FT programming per se. I found no free optical design software that would run on Mac, so I coded something up to

I did mostly scripting as in sysadmin work. No FT programming per se. I found no free optical design software that would run on Mac, so I coded something up to do some paraxial ray tracing ( maybe more, I'd have to dig up the code) and (this is the good part) draw lens diagrams from the specifications. Pretty simple, but it was fun to do. Very little available for Linux either. Physics and optics people want to have fun, too. Much of it was just parsing the input data. I do recall a design and/or analysis program written in Basic, but it wanted a particular basic interpreter, and I forgot if it had porting problems. Must have. I don't recall using the program. Oddest bit was something I did on my own for Sun flex office. I would get the list of scheduled occupants and their office choice and overlay that on a map of the office suite, for a "who is where" map. On a "real" work task, I learned how to write graphics commands in Illustrator 3 format. I may have used that on this project. But more generally, tacking the AI header code to the file made it valid Postscript/Illustrator format.