Back in the day, I remember doing tech work for the central bank in my country (Jamaica, circa 1991) and these English dudes were writing code in Quickbasic to

Back in the day, I remember doing tech work for the central bank in my country (Jamaica, circa 1991) and these English dudes were writing code in Quickbasic to help with some Foreign Exchange stuff for the bank. We sat down together for a short while as they showed me thousands of lines of incredibly complex QuickBasic code. It probably only lasted a short while as the bank upgraded their systems soon after that, but it was impressive to see what could be done with Basic for this time of corporate financial systems. To this day those guys impressed the heck out of me, and that really caused me to switch from just doing computer repairs to programming. So to those two English dudes out there, Thanks.