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Family values
Our search for the UK’s oldest second-generation programmer continues.
“There are third-generation programmers around,” says Mike Harrison at HMCS.
“My father-in-law programmed a stock-control system at Aldermaston in the 1960s. His daughter became a programmer in 1979 (Cobol) and is still in IT, and our son has worked at Vodafone for several years.”
Mike wrote his first program in 1964. “Three generations, and between us 90 years of programming – or more accurately 90 years of debugging.”
Which must have made for some riveting conversations over Sunday lunch.
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