Many years of programming here as well, either as a hobby, while studying or for work.
My main driving motivator after 32 years in the industry is that I still love to code and do problem solving. I have been fortunate to have been working on interesting and challenging tasks with very nice people throughout my career.
And I still enjoy learning new stuff, so never stop learning.
A short chronicle of my linguistic adventures in the computing domain during this 40+ year-long programming journey, although some are just vague memories at this point, like "fingerprints on an abandoned handrail" (Bob Mortimer):
1. Basic
2. Assembly (6502 and 68000) C64 and Amiga Demo Scene
My main driving motivator after 32 years in the industry is that I still love to code and do problem solving. I have been fortunate to have been working on interesting and challenging tasks with very nice people throughout my career. And I still enjoy learning new stuff, so never stop learning.
A short chronicle of my linguistic adventures in the computing domain during this 40+ year-long programming journey, although some are just vague memories at this point, like "fingerprints on an abandoned handrail" (Bob Mortimer):
1. Basic
2. Assembly (6502 and 68000) C64 and Amiga Demo Scene
3. C
4. Pascal
5. Simula
6. C++
7. Cobol
8. Wolfram Language (Mathematica)
9. PostScript
10. Fortran
11. QUEL
12. Visual Basic
13. Lisp
14. Perl
15. SQL
16. Java
17. AWK
18. Octave
19. Python
20. (S)ML
21. Scheme/Racket
22. C#
23. JavaScript
24. Scala
25. TypeScript
26. Haskell
27. F#
28. Erlang
29. Ruby
30. Clojure
31. R
32. Rust