The first computer that I owned was the one I built myself in 1980 while at Hewlett Packard. It was a Z80 with an S100 bus and 16K of memory. I've had a fascination with languages for my entire life. As a kid, I used to listen to short-wave broadcasts in foreign languages just to try to see if I could understand their structure. It was fascinating to me that I could not understand what was being said and to think that in those other lands they may not be able to understand what I was saying.
Language seems so intrinsic to our beings, yet it is so relative.
As an undergraduate at the university, I began taking graduate courses in language design and theory. I dove eagerly into every computer language there was and wrote dozens of interpreters and many compilers over the years. I decided to start RT in 1996 because I was growing very tired of the way computing was headed. Computer software, even to do relatively simple tasks, often takes too many programmers, costs a lot of money and takes too long. AND the way computers communicate with computers.