No one imposed my first language on me, it was the environment that did (you turn on the computer, there was BASIC; why yes, I did receive an 8-bit computer in

No one imposed my first language on me, it was the environment that did (you turn on the computer, there was BASIC; why yes, I did receive an 8-bit computer in the 80s). Worse, the only sources I had were books and magazines, since no one I knew could program (okay, I had two friends with computers, but we all had different ones, which made it difficult to swap programs).