Lars Knoll, CTO at Qt and Keynote Speaker at Akademy 2019
Paul Brown: Hello Lars, how are you this morning? You seem very busy...
Lars Knoll: Hi Paul, I'm doing good. There's more than enough to do, but I had a good weekend.
Paul: Great! So tell me a bit about yourself. Looking over your résumé, you seem to have been in software production forever. Is this something you always wanted to do, since you were young?
Lars: No, not really. Of course I played around with computers a bit when I was young. I had a Commodore 64 back then, but I mostly used it for games.
I actually went and studied physics when I went to University, and had quite a few years where I did very little with computers.
Things started picking up again during my masters and PhD thesis time in Heidelberg. I needed to use computers a lot to analyze the data that we collected during our experiments. We used Linux computers and Unix machines at that time, and I had to do quite a bit of my programming in Fortran. I really didn't like that language, so I started teaching myself C and some C++ to have a better language to work with. That was around 1996, 1997, if I remember correctly.
At that time, I also read about KDE for the first time, as a project to create a Desktop for Linux. That was something that also triggered my interest, and I started looking into it a bit and started subsequently to use it, as it was way easier than FVWM which is what I was using before.
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