[drbawb]

My dad is also a programmer. He helped me out as best he could; but for the most part we lived in two separate worlds.

Sure some stuff was common: if I needed a regular expression, he could always help me out. He had an editor (CodeWright?) with great support for that.

But I lived in the web world, and he made his living with embedded devices. Back in the 90s I was hacking away with 384MB of RAM in a Linux server. He was hacking away with, if he was lucky, 8MB of ROM and 4MB of RAM.

Still we talked about programming very little. Now we talk about the hilarious nuances of project management, but our work is still done in two completely separate worlds.