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Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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I started with AppleSoft BASIC and FORTRAN77, but don't hold that against me. :-)
These days, I use whatever programming language or scripting language is best suited for the job. I usually use Bash when I want to automate something. I prefer PHP if I'm coding a website. I use C if I want low level programming. I might use Awk if I need to manipulate data in a simple way, or Perl if I need to manipulate data in a weird way.
I see your point, but since this book was about installing and using FreeDOS, I needed to install and run FreeDOS so I could grab screenshots for the book. Doing that in an emulator like QEMU made sense. So for this article, it was relevant to mention QEMU.