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Frank Carr

Well, make me feel old...

0 -> BASIC and Fortran
(Pursued a different career direction for about 7 years)
7y -> 808x Assembly and C (you could count this as zero)
10y -> C++
15y -> VB
17y -> HTML
19y -> Java
20y -> Javascript
24y -> VB.NET and C#
28y -> PHP and JQuery
37y -> Angular
38y -> React

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Nicolás M. Pardo

No worries mr senior! We all hope to get there, how old were you when BASIC and Fortran?

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Frank Carr

I was 20 and was in college.

It's hard to imagine today but that class was the first time I had ever been in the same room as an actual computer (a PDP-11 and an Apple II) and not just looking at one through glass walls.