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→Programmer portraits: What have these six men got in common? A TI, for one thing.
Vincent Lannie of Texas Software Design in Baytown, Texas, says that some things I was doing on my own would rival anything on the market by a third party operator," and that got him into programming.
Scott Emory, a partner in EB Softwarein Santa Ana, California, says, ''"Ijust started reading books about it,then I got onto the computer and Iguess I had an aptitude for it. Itseemed pretty easy to me.''" Two of the programmers got theirstart in computer courses. Dr. AllanSwett of Intelpro in Brossard, Quebec,who is also a math professor at a juniorcollege, says he started programmingin 1966 as a student at Penn State ' '"withreally old-fashioned stuff, where you'dgnaw your fingers to the knucklesabout whether you got a comma in theright place.''"
He continued in the mathematics
field but has ''become more interested
