For me, all success as a programmer is thanks to learning from, and contributing to, the free software and open source community. Another factor is having a fa

For me, all success as a programmer is thanks to learning from, and contributing to, the free software and open source community. Another factor is having a family computer around when growing up, I learned to program for fun. I remember working on a BBS (bulletin-board system) code base written in Turbo Pascal, back in the days before the web, when I was around ten or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWIV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWIV