i started in 1971 after a brief exposure to COBOL in 1969 with no computer access, Focal was my first, then PDP-8 machine code (octal is fun), then i got access to a 360/44 and a 370/195 (later a 360/75) and did Fortran followed by macro assembler. i had fun with the macros over the years including developing structured programming macros that i made heavy use of. then unix came along in the mid-1980s. i was always doing weird stuff like lower case EBCDIC job names punched in the JCL cards ... making it harder for the ops to cancel my jobs. then VM/CMS came along in the mid-1970s. i thought Rexx was cool back then. today i think it sucks. i'd like to see Python back-ported through a time machine.
Tradition is peer pressure from dead people
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.