These days,
anyone who can do VB etc can call themselves a programmer;
in my day, you had to know PDP-11 or VAX assembler... Or Z-80...
I know 65C02, is that good enough? xD
I arrived too late for the 6502; my first was the Z-80 Microbee (when
everyone else I knew was into the Apple-I; then again, I've never been a
conformist, just like my RAF parents).
-- Dave