Same, though lots of us wanted to skip Pascal and C. :-) It's a strange language to celebrate in retrospect in that it lacks the street cred of both academics

Same, though lots of us wanted to skip Pascal and C. :-) It's a strange language to celebrate in retrospect in that it lacks the street cred of both academics and hard core engineers. To your point, in a sense it's like remembering your first bike. Of course the first mechanic of that first bike made his way to the Dartmouth presidency.