4. I fell in love with PC programming almost 40 years ago, after I taught myself to program dBase III+ (later Foxpro), and subsequently became an "office hero"

4. I fell in love with PC programming almost 40 years ago, after I taught myself to program dBase III+ (later Foxpro), and subsequently became an "office hero" in our low-budget workplace because there was hardly a problem I couldn't fix. Programming (logic) is a language where everyone is on a level playing field - or that's how I perceived it at the time; any funny language, dialect or outer appearance is of little to no importance. Lastly, it has the potential to do enormous amounts of work, automatically.