What’s the story behind the first time you got paid to code something? 
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The first time I made money from programming was in a summer job after sophomore year of college. It seemed amazing to get paid for programming.
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What kind of programming did you do?
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I was working for an AI group that had recently been set up by a big company, and they didn't really know what to do. (This was in 1984, and no one doing AI was doing anything that worked.) They had IBM PCs and I believe the only language we had was Basic.
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Back then people thought you could represent the concept of say a chair in someone's mind using a bunch of cons cells.
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