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Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Wed Sep 1 03:33:55 EDT 2004 
William Stein wrote:
> nnes wrote:
> 
> 
>>JanC <usenet_spam at janc.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:<Xns954A5141FF84JanC at 213.118.38.197>...
>>
>>>Gerardo Herzig -Departamento de Proyectos Especiales e Internet- Facultad
>>>de Medicina schreef:
>>>
>>>>30 years old. First program at 11 (Basic) on ZX Spectrum.
>>>
>>>/me too (now 30 & started with ZX Spectrum Basic at 11)
>>
>>count another one, me too now 30 years, started with ZX Spectrum Basic at
>>11
> 
> 
> Me as well; I'm 30 years old and I started programming BASIC on the
> TI-99/4A.

Ah, the TI-99/4A, my first computer as well. First standard BASIC, then 
Extended BASIC (you needed some kind of cartridge for that, like the 
ones used for games). A few years later I made the step to the PC, an XT 
at the time. A clone, but an advanced model: it could not only run at 
4.77MHz, but using the turbo button also at 10MHz! I programmed in 
GW-BASIC, since it was all I had (and knew). Later I got a Turbo Pascal 
compiler from somewhere, so I learned Pascal.

Some Fortran at university, even later C, a (very tiny) bit of Perl; 
C++, PHP, and finally Python.


-- 
"Codito ergo sum"
Roel Schroeven
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