Started programming on a Control Data mainframe in FORTRAN IV, back when that was still a new thing. Was apparently quite masochistic, because I kept programming anyway. For that matter, I still do...

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As of September 2020, I'm one of only two users who has been awarded the Gold vector badge.
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