I had a lot of fun when Warren Yu and I presented a rare dual-session in the showdown between VB and C# developers - whilst showing them the newest language features in the upcoming versions of the languages Visual Basic 10 and C# 4.0. The heated discussion...
BASIC was my first love. Notice the all caps -- that was how it was written back in the 80s. I discovered BASIC via a GW-BASIC manual I had found in my grandfather's boarding house, where a former tenant left it after graduation. From that lost book...