Thanks for BASIC, Thomas E. Kurtz!
Indeed. Like you I also learned FORTRAN, BASIC, and C. COBOL, was another one. There were probably one or two others, but those were the ones that popped immediately to mind.
Rest in peace, Mr. Kurtz.
COBOL, there was no use for it in the engineering fields so I never went for it. I did learn C++, perl, and a maybe a dozen other useful languages, even machine code, plus a plethora of languages used on semiconductor test equipment based on Fortran and C. The last "language" I encountered was Teradyne's IG-XL "test language" (graphical environment) for the Teradyne Catalyst-750 around 2002. It looked like an extension of MS Excel. Far different than writing lines of code. Damn, I still miss those days.
You got much more into it than I did. I drifted away from coding into PCs, then into routing and switching networks.
I never had training for routing and switching networks. My first encounter was visiting the network room for our new test floor circa 1997. The guys were setting up multiple RAID redundancy, weeks worth of cable management. We had an in-house IT group that did 95% of the work in the office areas and a couple of guys in the test group tasked to manage the test floor IT, but we were still expected to be able to map drives and perform simpler IT tasks ourselves. The floor was filled with high powered test systems, some costing $3M-$5M each depending on options. Lots of huge programs and data flying everywhere.