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I am Luca Saiu, a student and programmer living in Tuscany, Italy.
I obtained my university degree ("Laurea di Primo Livello", 109/110) in Computer Science at Pisa University in 2002. I'm still studying at Pisa University to become "Laureato di Secondo Livello".
My interests in Computer Science range from programming languages implementation to semantics; I also like computer architectures, networks, databases and AI.
Albeit being a strong C, C++ and Java programmer my favourite languages are Lisp and the functional languages such as Haskell and ML.
I deeply believe in free software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), not only as a philosophical attitude, but as an actual coherent practice. I'm the author and maintainer of GNU epsilon, a purely functional language implementation (see http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon), for the GNU Project (http://www.gnu.org).
I am the author and administrator of a collaborative website hosting the works by some of the Italian amateur writers of the Usenet group it.arti.scrivere; the site address is http://go.to/itartiscrivere. I myself post to the group with the nickname Adriano Spera. The site is currently offline.
I am actively fighting against software patents in Europe. See [1] (http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~saiu) for my campaign (in Italian). Please give it a look if you speak Italian, the matter is very important.
I am convincedly atheist, rationalist, vegan.
My political position is Economic Left/Right: -9.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05. (see http://www.politicalcompass.org)