BBC BASIC. You mean I can POKE things here, and stuff shows up on the screen in a different color?! Turbo Pascal. Woah this is fast. And Mum is impressed when

BBC BASIC. You mean I can POKE things here, and stuff shows up on the screen in a different color?! Turbo Pascal. Woah this is fast. And Mum is impressed when code sells for money. Visual Basic. I'm living in the future, Ma. Dentist has a side business sell flowers and needs a program that can handle root canal and roses? I got you. Perl. Suddenly system administration is fun again. Java. My mind is blown, in a bad way. This is what I have to write to keep a roof over my head? Ugh. Go. Aaahhh. Feels like reading W. Richard Stevens again. Coming home to unix, but with the bad parts acknowledged instead of denied.