In the 1970s I wrote FORTRAN and assembler.
Was never fond of FORTRAN, though fond of John Backus, but loved assembler. Thinking about counters and such was so right. And when we had 3 letter acronyms, looking for them on license plates was glorious. Remember ZAP? Zero and Add Packed? I got into the field in 1967, my husband in 1962. He had a very early paper out on “Yet Another Algol Compiler.”