Like many of you, I programmed in BASIC as a child. I remember a book I got for xmas that contained a BASIC implementation of the Eliza program. I copied it to my Laser-128 (Apple IIc clone); I remember being impressed with the program's "intelligence" and also wishing that I knew enough to make it smarter.
Anyway, I'm a programmer by uni education and career path. I studied C++, Java, VB, and Cobol in college. Upon graduation in 2001, after the US tech economy meltdown, I managed to find work as a legacy systems (read: IBM mainframe) programmer. I'm still plugging away at it, but for the last couple years I have been picking up sysadmin (FreeBSD / Linux) side projects, and attempting to slowly steer my career in that direction.
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