My programming career began when I was 10 years old and my father brought home a Timex/Sinclair 1000 with a whopping 2K of RAM. Turbo Pascal 3.0 was the first software package I bought for my first PC, a Tandy 1000. I did most of my early professional software development in C/C++ in various flavors of Unix. These days I work mostly with Java on Linux or OSX, with a bit of Perl coding and Javascript thrown into the mix.