re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
I feel so old. My first program was written in FORTRAN.
On punch cards!
BASIC
On a teletype to a Vaxen.
Followed by BASIC
On a TRS-80. aka TRASH-80.
With no storage media so we had to type the program everytime till we figured out how to hook up his tape recorder to it.
Thank god I soon learned about LISP… ;)