Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jamesog" class="u-url mention">@<span>jamesog</span></a></span> i cut my language teeth on <a href="https://federate.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BASIC</span></a> and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pascal</span></a> on my <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Apple2e" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple2e</span></a> (and a bunch of <a href="https://federate.social/tags/PET" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PET</span></a> and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TRS80</span></a>) back in the day. By college (1988) I was using <a href="https://federate.social/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>C</span></a>, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LISP</span></a>, et al on a variety of systems. I used <a href="https://federate.social/tags/TurboPascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TurboPascal</span></a> and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/TurboC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TurboC</span></a> on a few college projects. Oh and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shell</span></a> scripting. Lots of shell scripting. Ironically, I never touched <a href="https://federate.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COBOL</span></a> until I began work after college. Hehe <a href="https://federate.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>