* DJ_O points to Art_of_camelot as example, who left the entire community in 1998 or so to finally return 9 years later, out of school and still program for the next two years afterward.
Well, the time frame is wrong, but your point is correct. We have several inactive accounts here, as people do loose interest or move on. None of them have ever been deleted for such a reason though. Also, we have had cases where people come back months or years later to pop in and say hi or resurface. Life's circumstances are always changing, and it's nice to be able to come back to find things still in place.
Well that was what it was like for me.
I thought I could program easy, but I felt I wasn't ready, so I registered here
and went through all the courses in my school until I felt I could be determined
enough to learn Ti-BASIC, then I saw Axe Parser... And now look where I am!