I was an early supporter of the LiteratePrograms website. I was user RossPatterson, active around 2007. LiteratePrograms got lost around 2010, and was recreated later, without any wiki features and with no history. Luckily, the Internet Archive captures everything.

I created several small programs there:

• "Hello World" in Rexx
• Soundex in Rexx
• NYSIIS in Rexx
• Word count in Rexx
• Word count in Forth

(now at https://ccnet.github.io/CruiseControl.NET/projects/ccnet/wiki.html) Circa 2008, I was the release manager, I think for release 1.3. I created the AccuRev source control interface

I was part of the VM/CMS systems programming community for years during the last century, and I did some work to make John Fisher's wonderful VMARC utility more reliably Y2K compliant.

I worked in one group with several different corporate overlords for about 13 years. We focused solely on tools for IBM's VM/CMS environment, many of them systems management tools. But in 1995, the group then known as Sterling Software Inc's VM Software Division released a mainframe native webserver that I designed and the I and two others wrote. From scratch, using no code from any of the existing webservers on any platform. Sterling called it "VM:Webserver" at first (and later "VM:WebGateway"), and it did pretty well for quite a few years. A later corporate overlord killed it, and as far as I know, there are no instances of it left on the web.

As to who I am, I'm the Ross Patterson you used to find on the web most of the time. I've been an active and occasionally noisy geek since at least 1972, when I was lucky enough to encounter an IBM 1130 computer system at Stuyvesant High School. Until 2000 or so, all the search engines knew about were me and some piano player. Since then, there was a movie called The New Guy, with some other Ross Patterson in a supporting role with Eliza Dushku. Ah, we should all be so lucky.

For many years I was involved with SHARE, an IBM-oriented computer user group - in fact, the oldest computer user group. I was also active in the HTTP standardization effort, among many other Internet-related activities.

I retired from the daily rat race in 2022, and am enjoying coding more than I have in years :-)