My programmer career started in my teenage years when my uncle lend me a book about programming serial/parallel ports on an IBM compatible PC. The book would ex

My programmer career started in my teenage years when my uncle lend me a book about programming serial/parallel ports on an IBM compatible PC. The book would explain a certain concept and then give different code examples in two languages BASIC and Pascal. However the variable names in the Pascal examples where in German, those from BASIC where in English. My teenage self therefore thinking Pascal was a 'German' programming language so I stuck with the BASIC examples, learning programming was complex enough without having to learn German as well. Only later in school when I got lessons in Pascal it struck me it was just as English as BASIC.