I started somewhere between 8 and 9, probably before with DOS QBasic. I vaguely remember a Vic-20 and Basic when I was about 5 or 6, but you can barely call that programming.

I remember playing with HTML/JS in early 96, and gotten my hands on a copy of Visual Basic at about the same time. Then it was Delphi/Pascal in early 2000, then I started college in 2003 and learned C, C++, Java, .Net, and all those nice things.

@ddephor Interesting! I believe I read something similar before but didn't bother trying... Now I only have to find a local beekeeper and feed on honey for a few weeks/months 😊

@darkcode At least it was a nice basement. It even had A/C!

@vertti I fully understand that. The problem was that it kept getting worse and worse although we had more contracts than our 4-people team could handle. No communication was happening between the 2 partners and the 2 employees (a tech and I), and they were trying to do a lot of stuff instead of focusing on being excellent on one single thing. They had a really nice product, in a market that was starting to develop with practically no competition. I think they are doing great for themselves now, hopefully not pulling the same tactics with their current employees.

I'm in the same boat. I've spent quite some time looking for a "Spanish" compiler...

devRUnt, now limited to 512-bytes messages!

Ah! The dreaded Heisenbug!

Hehehe :) I remember CSI:Miami trying to connect to 359.33.9.234. IPv4? Nah, we use IPv4.5 over here.

If you say it 3 times real fast, it summons James Gosling.

When I'm on bug-fixing duty, I like to sing the following song. Not only is it catchy, it's also terribly accurate...

99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs in the code
Take one down, patch it around
127 little bugs in the code

@ronakkaria Actually, Corporate have infrastructures throughout the world. It's not really a problem to work from home (or from anywhere else) when our office is offline. Everything we need to work is available via one of the many VPN. Only a few local servers are unavailable, but they are not used in the development process.

@filthyranter Automatic code completion is wonderful, isn't it? :P

I just fainted trying to read that class name out loud.

Kudos if you can place this inconspicuously in a casual conversation.

Same here. I also have "weitgh" issues. Sorry, weihgt. Weigth? Weight? Or Waigth? Not sure anymore, too many darn exceptions.

SAP/Crystal Reports SDK also likes insanely long class and method names. A tad shorter than some of Spring's classes, but a good contender nonetheless.

ReportSDKInvalidParameterFieldCurrentValueException is probably my favorite. If you cannot pronounce the name in one breath, it's probably too long...

Power came back a few minutes ago. Time to go back being productive, I guess.

Next meeting with customer: "So, we came up with a better idiot, and now your interface is broken..."

SAP does the same. It's infuriating, especially when the doc is less than a week old.