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==Early life and education==
Perlman was born to a large, native-southern Californian family on January 6, 1964. The son of an electrical engineer who designed communications equipment for military purposes and a social worker, Perlman attended [[University High School (Irvine, California)|University High School]] in [[Irvine, California]]. Perlman first became interested in programming at age 10 while watching [[Star Trek]] and learning about the technology of the future. To feed this interest Perlman spent time at the [[University of California at Irvine]] computer science lab learning about [[mainframe computers]]. A few years later Perlman’s father brought home a [[Texas Instruments]] portable terminal that allowed him to further develop his [[programming]] skills. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>▼
▲Perlman was born to a large, native-southern Californian family on January 6, 1964. The son of an electrical engineer who designed communications equipment for military purposes and a social worker, Perlman attended [[University High School (Irvine, California)|University High School]] in [[Irvine, California]]. Perlman first became interested in programming at age 10 while watching [[Star Trek]] and learning about the technology of the future. To feed this interest Perlman spent time at the [[University of California at Irvine]] computer science lab learning about [[mainframe computers]]. A few years later Perlman’s father brought home a [[Texas Instruments]] portable terminal that allowed him to further develop his [[programming]] skills.
==Early career ==
In 1984, Perlman took a job as a [[customer service]]/billing technician at [[AT&T]] in an office that housed approximately 300 employees. The office phone system reported the number of calls each employee would take per hour and staff managers reviewed this information on a weekly basis and compared it to employee’s seniority to determine when lunches and breaks would be allotted. Perlman went to his manager and suggested he could write a program to automate this process; something that took each manager a full day per week to do—his program would reduce the task to 15 minutes. He was given an office and a computer to build this application. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>▼
▲In 1984, Perlman took a job as a [[customer service]]/billing technician at [[AT&T]] in an office that housed approximately 300 employees. The office phone system reported the number of calls each employee would take per hour and staff managers reviewed this information on a weekly basis and compared it to employee’s seniority to determine when lunches and breaks would be allotted. Perlman went to his manager and suggested he could write a program to automate this process; something that took each manager a full day per week to do—his program would reduce the task to 15 minutes. He was given an office and a computer to build this application.
==Career==
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==Personal life==
Perlman currently resides in [[Austin, Texas]], with his wife and two children. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>
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