I've been at it since about 1980 when my high school got Commodore PET computers, and I got access to them in the back of the math classroom. A few years later,

I've been at it since about 1980 when my high school got Commodore PET computers, and I got access to them in the back of the math classroom. A few years later, I got my own. We're alchemists who have actually found the Philosopher's stone[1], who wouldn't love having that kind of power? We take a universal computing element and constrain it into acting like just the tool a user needs. I love this art, and can't see ever giving it up. I first learned to cast spells in BASIC, then moved on to Turbo Pascal, assembler, and many other forms of incantation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone