Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton�s software development meme that�s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one. It�s interesting to see how many diverse backgrounds lead us in the same direction. How old were you when you started programming? 13 (33 years ago as of this writing.) How did you get started in programming? In 1974, there were no personal computers. My school got a very basic "programmable" calculator. It was about 8 times this size of today's laptop computers, had the equivalent of 8 16Bit registers and a collection of math operations. This was my introduction to programming and I was hooked. Shortly after a business that my father was involved in purchased a NC programmable lathe...(read more) ...
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