“I started in IT as a COBOL programmer back in 1983.”
Assembler language, 1977. I’m so glad I don’t do that any longer.
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Did cobal and assembler in the beginning too. Moved on to networking, x.25 framerelay and MpLs. Now I mostly work on my homestead as I am in between jobs.
I did several years of assembler and FORTRAN programming back in that era; it was a decade after I stopped before I could look at a newspaper headline and not mentally convert it into a six-character-or-less acronym.
I enjoyed dabbling around with the first microprocessors that came on the market back in the early 1970’s. Had to program them in machine language.
I like assembler. My favorite machine for assembler was the 68000. Of course, assembler is needed these days only to write HOT device drivers, interrupt service routines, or something like a BIOS. I enjoy that low-level stuff.