Probably the most "pro" thing I've done to date is write a PHP library to interface with our Storm API
I remember the early days of personal computing with fondness, of writing and freely sharing libraries. Of course, this was before M$ knew what that was. Yes, I am one of those Amiga/Unix
assholes people that was doing modern computing on an Amiga platform in the mid-80's when PC people were arguing the merits of amber screens v. green screens and Mac people were learning Apple's obsequious and infinitely inferior OS and UI. I was doing 4,096 colors and a Motorola 68000 in 1985. PC people were bragging about their Dhrystone ratings, but not only couldn't their computers do crap, they couldn't themselves. PCs and Macs were so inferior that it was like being fluent in multiple languages and having modern writing and publishing tools (Amiga) and dealing with infants who could barely speak and wrote by chiseling in stone tablets (IBM and Mac). I began writing C in 1986, but wrote assembler in several flavors before that and the first computer I used was an IBM 360 mainframe using Fortran IV in 1974. I was running X Windows (er, excuse me, the X Window System) remotely from home on MSU engineering Sun and HP servers in the early 1990's when Microsoft was pushing Windows 3.0 and 3.1. lmfao I was also running BSD-Unix on my Amiga in the early 1990's, mostly for an 800-level OS course where I had to tear it apart and rebuild it. Because I was running a superior computing platform I could do this from home. Everyone else who had PCs and Macs lived at school in the engineering and CS labs. lol
Some people reading this have no idea what I'm talking about. Comparing AmigaOS with MSDOS-Windows/MacOS is like comparing a modern fighter jet (AmigaOS) with a biplane (MSDOS-Windows/MacOS). Adding on the X Windows client just makes the equation that much more unbalanced.
As much as I admire Dave Ramsey, I disagree with him on Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, especially Bill Gates. M$ set the personal computing world BACK twenty years.
I have also written a few small programs in Smalltalk against my will (as well as ported Smalltalk to Amiga. I hate Smalltalk). I have pondered the idea of learning Python for several years. Maybe when I retire I can have fun again.
Oh, yeah, there is no reason for C++ or any derivatives. You can't improve on C's simplicity, power, and perfection. C++ and derivatives are a solution to a non-existent problem. Kinda like our government. But then C++ was developed by a Dane. What would you expect? A nanny state in computing.
Yeah, I have opinions on this stuff.