Learned Sinclair BASIC when I was 10ish. Graduated to the C64 and a BBC Micro through school, ended up doing C and a load of ARM assembler by 16. Picked up PHP,

Learned Sinclair BASIC when I was 10ish. Graduated to the C64 and a BBC Micro through school, ended up doing C and a load of ARM assembler by 16. Picked up PHP, Delphi and Java at college, got PHP and Java work after then. Got into Python 5 years ago, then Ruby 4 years ago, and dabbled in C# in the interim. In the last year I've picked up Common Lisp and Clojure after trying (and generally failing) to make headway in Haskell. I've only started to think of myself as a "good" programmer in the last couple of years, but I'm not so sure it's a healthy perspective - it's mainly in response to increasingly interacting with other peoples' code and realising how shoddy a lot of it actually is. And I'm still learning :-)