My first real professional programming project was written in Python, using Django 0.96, in 2007. It was at a large shipping company, and "under the radar" - i.

My first real professional programming project was written in Python, using Django 0.96, in 2007. It was at a large shipping company, and "under the radar" - i.e., the "business side" did it, as IT wouldn't support it. Two years later the project had become an integral part of some critical business processes, and IT had to take it on. They decided to rewrite it in C#. I left the company at that point, and almost a decade later I got a call from a former coworker asking for help to fix the system. It turns out it was basically unchanged from when I left, and the address of the Exchange server that it relied on for auth had changed.