Uhm. Possibly something written in BASIC on the good old TI99/4A my parents had when I was a youngun (hey man, we even had the speech synthesizer), or something written in BASIC on the good old Apple ][c we had. The first one that I can recall, though, was in LOGO (saints preserve me!) on a Commodore 64 in 5th grade; you gave it a few parameters, and it drew snowflakes. It might have been before we got the Apple, though.

After that, I sort of drifted away from programming, and came back just in time to take a year of Pascal in my senior year of Highschool, and that awful disaster drove me away from programming for about three years. Then I finally found C++ (hate it if you want, it's saner than Pascal), and about the same time started messing with actually running UNIX boxes instead of just using them, and then about 2 years ago I discovered Perl. First Perl program I wrote was one that randomly picked a sig file out of a directory and copied it to my .signature file.

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