The child of an IT pioneer I grew up with it. In 1983 my father brought a c64 into the home and you had to type in the programs from a book with lots of errors in the checksum as book designers had no clue what it was about. I think that frustration of having no clue myself, doing exactly what the book said and it not working shaped my programming skills. I still hate doing it to this day.

Having used an odd 20 languages over the past 40 years, I tend to mess up syntax and like Python for its readability but am forced to bash ECMA script and PHP code once a while. Absolutely hate JAVA, though that is also related to it being associated with Oracle, which to me makes it baffling why it ever became popular and used for modern platforms.

As one eye in the land of the blind I rolled into IT jobs as a troubleshooter and admin. Basically seen it all develop over time and used every concievable platform, even System/36. Fervent user and supporter of Open Source, right to repair and educating the exploited masses. If flint napping had had patents we’d never would have progressed beyond it.