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sklivvz1971

My dad coded mainframe systems for IBM, but actively discouraged me in my teen years.

I did pair with a same aged friend. We co-learned BASIC and Z80 assembler at the age of 12.

My both mother and father developed software running on IBM mainframes for large USSR enterprises. It's interesting that USSR could not purchase mainframes legally so USSR worked around this restriction and finally was able to buy software with the help of KGB agents in Romania who introduced themselves to IBM sales as Romanian citizens. You can read more about it here [1] After crash of soviet economy my parents became unemployed and never worked as programmers again. My father teached me some C in TurboC IDE. Currently I am full stack web dev. [1] http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Folklor...

Did your dad discourage you from working with mainframes, or discourage you from programming in general?

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