From: "Frank Haber" 

My first language, for a day or two, was plugboards on an IBM 650.  I then
gave up in disgust, and reverted to solder until 12/1982, when I bought a
used S-100 machine and went straight into Z80 SIO, CP/M, and MBASIC.  I
tended to program only when the better half would periodically remind me
that I was spending at the rate of $3500/yr. on CompuServe (at 300B!).  A
sysop flag soon ensured that I could rot my brain far cheaper than that,
and.....

If your attention span is as short as mine (about one subroutine's worth a
week), you might enjoy VB6.  It permits near-infinite sloppiness, yet still
does something every once in a while, without revealing your incomptetence
to the whole Web. It's cheap on Ebay, and I believe even shows up on a
certain equine service every once in a while.

I also enjoy throwing errmsgs in Excel and bash from time to time.  That's
about it these days.

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