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I think I didn't mind so much because my first programming language when I was about 7 was BASIC on my Commodore 64 (and the tandy's at school. I think we have one Apple ][ as well). So BASIC trained me to be ok with that same kind of format that Assembly used... That said, high level languages like C++ were so much nicer!

I did a lot of BASIC stuff on our Texas Instruments computer that we had. We had an audio tape drive so we could save the programs and load them back up without having to write them all over again. I remember my dad subscribed to a magazine that had different programs in it each month.

I loved those magazines when I was a kid. I spent hours typing those programs in!