[I suggest my usual readers to skip this post altogether, you won't find anything useful here :-)] Romeo tagged me with this "How did you get started in software development?" quest. I was already feeling guilty, because given how swamped I am I knew I was not going to have time to reply to the tag: OTOH right now my main PC is unusable, since I am repaving a new HD on it, hence while the network install goes I can write this up. How old were you when you started programming? A quale età hai cominciato a programmare? I was 12. One Christmas parents & siblings joined forces and got me a Commodore16 : it was just *fantastic*. How did you get started in programming? Come hai cominciato a programmare? With the reference manual of the basic 3.5. What was your first language? Qual’è stato il tuo primo linguaggio di programmazione? Basic, the one that came with the Commodore16. What was the first real program you wrote? Qual’è stato il primo programma vero che hai scritto? Hard to define "real" here. I would say that the first program I have wrote for a purpose different than pure enjoyment was a control routine for a Siemens PLC. It was for a shop class, we had those PLC working in AWL-step5. Not very structured, but hey... certainly software! What languages have you used since you started programming? Quali linguaggi hai usato da quando hai cominciato a programmare? Ah, hard to remember them all. Already mentioned Basic and AWL-Step5. At the University it was mainly Pascal, C and Read More...