Hey, I started in the 80s on a Commodore 64 (and Vic 20!) too! And later graduated to COBOL74 on a Unisys mainframe... I just got a really young start.

If you find yourself feeling like writing about your opinions on software design sometime, I hope it comes across my news feed. I'm starting to bookmark articles like this one so that I can compile them together in the future to hopefully combat the treadmill thinking in software development.