How old are you people??

[Steve Maier]

I'm 32. Steve Maier, MCSD

[Steve Maier]

But you could probably write a program to calculate it - right?? ;) Steve Maier, MCSD

[Tomasz Sowinski]

11101. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com.pl

[realJSOP]

I tried to do that a couple of years ago, but it required too much data entry to be practical. I tried getting one of those artificial intelligence programs to help me, and the ony output I got was "I think it's best that you stick to approximating your age."

[Steve Driessens]

Ta. I've heard that life begins at 40, but there's been no noticable difference so far. :-)

[Matt Philmon]

I'm at the ripe old age of 28. ;P

[Stuart van Weele]

39, except when I'm watching Bonkers or Darkwing Duck with my kids.

[Stan Shannon]

47, and didn't write a professional line of code until I was 33. I thought programming would be a good job to have when I got too old to do real work, but you young guys are starting to scare me!:eek:

[Wayne Fuller]

I'm 33, and I am the youngest in my group. My group's ages are 35, 41, 40ish, and 50ish. My boss is 36. Wayne

[Chris Hafey]

28 years old. I started programming when I was 10 years old, I bought a book on BASIC programming at Radio Shack and wrote out programs in long hand on paper. When I showed my parents, they knew they had to get me a computer and soon I had a shiny new TRS-80 Color Computer with 16k RAM. Was anyone else a CoCo user? Chris Hafey

[Steve Maier]

We had a Trash-80 in the house for a while too. But I learned programming on a Vic20 and C64. Did basic there then straight to machine code (no assembler :( ). Then selftaught C/C++ on the C64, when to a C128, and finally a DOS PC. Steve Maier, MCSD

[Gennady Oster]

Congratulations ! BTW, what computer did you start from? Abacus like me? Regards, Gennady

[Dave Carkeet]

Im 41 but admit to 32 in smoky bars after 1 a.m. I remember entering the bootstrap on the old PDP7 with the accumulator switches on the front because the bloody paper tape reader never worked Dave Carkeet, Santiago, Chile

[Luis Alonso Ramos]

You guys are old!!! I learned programming when I was 10 with QuickBasic in a CompuAdd 16MHz 386 with 40 MB of hard disk space (wow!! that was big!!). -- LuisR -------- Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com

[Steve Maier]

Not old..... just experienced. :) Steve Maier, MCSD

[Lost User]

A well seasoned 48 ! Steven J. Ackerman, Consultant ACS, Sarasota, FL http://www.acscontrol.com steve@acscontrol.com sja@gte.net

[PJ Arends]

A very young 36. :-D --- Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once.

[Ghazi H Wadi]

30, Thanks for the reality check...:) Cheers Alfadhly. It is Illogical to define an inventor by his invention

[James R Twine]

First line from my GeekCode: GCS d- s+:+ a28 C++++$ UL+++>++++ P+ t+++ 5++ X+++ tv+ -=- James.

[Jack Allen]

Thank you! I started with a Commodore 64. It had a cassette tape drive for storage and I used an old TV for a monitor. My first "real" programs were done in dBase on those old green-screen, dual floppy drive, suitcase sized Compaq "portable" PCs. Ah, those were the days... Jack