Thank you! I've never thought of owing my career to BASIC being so accessible, but you're right, and it's a very beautiful thought. I also wrote my first line

Thank you! I've never thought of owing my career to BASIC being so accessible, but you're right, and it's a very beautiful thought. I also wrote my first lines of code on QBasic 4.5 -- though my big teenage-years programming love was Turbo Pascal.