I began in the 8-bit age, with BASIC and eventually a small collection of languages under CP/M (not much call for BCPL these days). I met Ada and of course "new" ANSI C at Uni, but I wrote most production code in Perl than anything else. Probably because we built an ISP out of it in the 90s. After many years more or less away from any serious hands-on coding I've now returned with the help of Claude... to Perl. Mostly for personal projects and research. Glad to see some noteworthy public donations.