> Finally, someone in my cohort :-). 52. I'm 58. Started programming in 1979 -- 25 years ago. Cut my teeth on Pl/I. Later COBOL, Pascal, Basic, Java. For a while I liked REXX very much, but it just ran out of steam. Been programming in Python for about 4 years. Perhaps we have a two-hump demographic: youngsters in teens and twenties, and old farts in 50's.