I've been programming for about 27 years. I started out programming 68000 assembly language on the first Macintosh, then began writing "play" code using Apple's pascal interpreter. Soon I had to switch to a DOS computer, because I was paid to write a dairy farm management program for DOS using Turbo Pascal. That was back in 1986. Finished that, then got hired (by a cousin to the dairy farm management entrepreneur) to write metrology software (having nothing to do with the weather, but measuring things to make sure theey met some manf. spec) for a company called Metronics in NH. Stayed on there writing C/C++ software for embedded systems (made by my employer, sold to other companies as a hw/sw package) and also wrote Turbo Pascal (til '97) / C++ code (since '95) for PC metrology software (which they continue to sell to other companies). I am now programming for a brand new NH based metrology+ company since May of 2010. Working strictly in C++ code these days. Loving it. I live in Taiwan with my wife and 2 cats. I work from home, head phones on, coding when the U.S. is sleeping... listening to Queen and Meatloaf. Oops, maybe I shouldn't have shared that...