The only person that I ever knew of that programmed was my uncle, who passed away the same year I was born. From what I was told, and from the books he had let behind, he was pretty knowledgable in COBOL and FORTRAN (it was the 60s). Had no-one in the family ever so much as even suggest getting into programming, or even what it meant (the family tree is very salt-of-the earth to put it nicely)