I answered the poll talking only of years I've spent programming being a major part of my life (ie: employment, education) - about 5 years. But I first learned

I answered the poll talking only of years I've spent programming being a major part of my life (ie: employment, education) - about 5 years. But I first learned to "code" back in 1987 on a Tandy color computer my grandfather bought me, and continued to tinker randomly for the next 15 years. So if you count that, my programming started over 20 years ago. Moved through basic, pascal, c, c++, visual basic, java, .net, php, PERL, ruby... God damn, when did I become so old?