Former Programmer (but couldn't find a job back when Mr. "what resession?" Bush was president)

Programmed and operated IBM 360/370 mainframe computers years ago.  Wrote COBOL, IDBMS, CICS, ASM, REX, and a few other odd langs.

Self taught on 8086 "PC".  Learned MS ASM from an old Peter Norton book, still do the odd V-basic program just to keep my logic skills in shape.

Hate C or C++.  Ashton Tate DBase IV and Windows, in any form, are a good examples of why it sucks (memory leak city).  Modula II did a better job of OOP, much easier to write (but its a dead lang now).