Ah, the late nights hacking on a 386 in QBasic. Life would have gone down a different path without that dusty clicking and blinking thing. I guess we're getting old. Now the damned things are trying to write their own code.

Same here. I switched to Turbo Pascal before I finished high school then it was Fortran and then much later C followed by almost everything else.

Same! TI BASIC, then AppleSoft.