[FpUser]

The first language I learned was machine code. Just saying. And I was in no way programmer. I was just a scientist trying to get some digestible data from the device used in my experiments. As the time went by I got Assembly, C, Turbo Pascal etc. I knew about basic but have never used it.

[cambalache]

I first started programming when I taught myself at 3 years old digital logic. I started with just combinatorial logic (I was 3 after all!) but in one week I graduated to sequential logic.I still remember the spark of pride on father's eyes when I showed him the ALU I just created, he still told me to do better. Several ISA and micro-architecture later and half a dozen of languages created ( I remember fondly Beethoven,it was OO, this was before Simula) I started to get good at it. But then Gerda, my dear _Lehrerin_ had to go back to Germany (something about her father) and I had to start first grade so I set those juvenile games aside. I think they still somehow shaped the gentleman I am today.

Yours fondly. Oneupyou McGill