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So, nearly 18?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So far, I appear to be the eldest, with a birth year of 1944. I'd be happy to teach any of you young'uns what I remember offhand about the early days of FORTRAN and COBOL! Of course, eventually I progressed from there to Basic, then C, C++, and finally C# with a bit of JavaScript and a few others thrown in for good measure.
Please wake me in time for my nap!
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We have here one 10 years before you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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No relation to the famous computer scientist Edsger W Dykstra?
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Not as far as I know, but like him my family immigrated from the Netherlands. In my case, though, my grandparents immigrated in the 1880s. He came on his own as an adult after he was already well-known in computer science.
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@Dennis Dykstra: Sorry 1944 doesn't make it. How about April 1943? First program Fortran II (compiler was a deck of punch cards), Last coding Angular 7 a couple of days ago.
Agree it's time for a nap!
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You are even with theoldfool... Same year, same month...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I can't say I am the oldest, but born 11/1954 and first started programming in 1977.
And still going strong with C#. .NET, Blazor, Xamarin.Forms, .NET Core, etc.
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I don't post a lot, but I do post here, I enjoy the daily conversations.
Aug 1978
hmmm....
- Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. (Optimus Prime, or Michael Bay, but I prefer Otpimus Prime)
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My age is now 77. I don't like the order of these digits so I simply add them
and tell everyone I'm 14. Started out with punched cards and Fortran. Primitive
but pretty secure.
73
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1989 though I generally don't respond just but I do like to lurk in the shadows and read responses.
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Same here: I don't post but I do read responses. In fact, I think this is my first post ever.
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- Mind you, I can't remember why I am here.
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July, 1940, but so far only the second oldest.
I started with Fortran before it needed a number and did some coding in FAP, then coded in various assembly languages for mainframes, minis and micros. Along the way I picked up bits of COBOL, PL/I, BASIC, CBASIC, ALGOL... I am still grateful for C.
For the past 15 years, I revel in Classic C++.
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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How about 1943? When I learned to program, we had to twist the bits with our bare hands.
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Good Grief! What a lot of youngsters!
1951 me, the best year yet!
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The Talk...[^]
Now it all makes sense ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What kind of monitor do you need to read that? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Click on it...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Anything with a resolution of 684 x 11112 will do it - doesn't your lappie support that?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Perhaps, by my eyes don't... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now it all makes sense
To me, it now does even less. And I'm happy to leave it at that.
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