Back in 1981, I was working in an engineering lab trained as an electronic tech. Since I was poor and could not afford an expensive HP programable calculator that the engineers had, I built what was later to be called the Timex Sinclair portable computer. At first, there were no apps for it so I learned basic so that I could run long engineering formulas. I still work in the Test Engineering section of that same company. A large Software Engineering sections writes all of our software in C++.