Yours probably gets "first program" awards. My first was 1967 on an IBM 1401. Submit your FORTRAN card deck and come back in a few hours to see if it actually compiled. The good part is a life time habit of "desk checking" -- not for compile errors any more, but for logic errors. After all these years the code I check in tends to work right.

Nice. You learned the fundamentals of being a good manager, which are sadly lost on many who are given the position.

Hope they don't learn to fly.

The first rule of FLAC is, don't explain FLAC.

Not so dead an end. I have 35 years as a "coder" and am still loving it. I make good money by anyone's standards, and look forward to each new challenge. The field is always evolving. I'll be speaking at my daughter's school next week to share my perspective with middle school kids. Bottom line? Figure out what you love and do it. It just might be programming.

Talent is what you are born with. Skill is what you work to develop. It seems obvious that a talented person can reach higher skill levels than a lesser talented person .... If they work at it. Ah! There's the rub.

If you argue with idiots they will bring you down to their own level and beat you with experience.

Barak's not here, man.

Someone had in their sig, "The English language was invented by Norman soldiers to seduce Saxon barmaids".

Exactly! Like questioning evolution or the value of PI.

i guess e. e. cummings just won't survive the 21 st century.

I, for one, welcome our new voracious worm robot under lords.

I, for one, support our new Paul overlords Ron, Rand, and Ru.

So I rewired myself!