[Publius]

Back then, most of the programmers were math/physics/engineering majors who had learned and/or developed their logical thought processes in their majors, then went on to learn a language in which to implement them.

My major was chemistry, and I ended up learning Fortran. Then I picked up Cobol and became a business programmer for 31 years before my retirement in 2005. Along the way I picked up a host of minor languages and dabbled in MS/Access before I packed it in.

My timing was right. There are twelve year olds out there that are better qualified in today's languages, such as Visual Basic or C Sharp. As they say in the Mafia, "The old must make way for the new."

[Still Thinking]

Sheesh! COBOL for a chemist! That's must have been like Quentin Daniels working in the State Science Institute. And no, I don't Enjoy Data Processing.

[Explorer89]

I’m a comp sci major with a minor in chemistry. Never used the chemistry in my professional career, just wanted to take P-Chem for giggles.