Quite a story! I wrote a program for a dentist office (not my dentist) when I was 13 and got paid! It was a program to track their patients and stuff though, nothing critical. What was peculiar about this was that the dentist asked me if I can write the software in Turbo Pascal. That's the only language he, kind of, understood and he wanted to maintain it later when I write it. I didn't know Pascal, I only knew C at the time, but I accepted the challenge and wrote my first and only program in TP. It was kind of elaborate, especially for a 13 year-old, but also fun (BGI!).