When I was a lad, I wrote an implementation of Scheme in a new-fangled language called Java that nobody had heard of. You certainly couldn't get a job in a bank

When I was a lad, I wrote an implementation of Scheme in a new-fangled language called Java that nobody had heard of. You certainly couldn't get a job in a bank with Java experience at the time. I'm glad I did so, the Java experience gave me enough money to take time off my career and the Lisp experience gave me something interesting to do with the time off.