in reply to I started with...:

I started with Commodore 64 BASIC, then played with LOGO and The Designer's Pencil (on the C64). Then eventually to QBASIC on the Tandy-1000. Then nothing until C++ freshman year of high school (which didn't go over so well, but it was a required class) followed swiftly and successfully by Perl.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart