Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Kyle Furlong]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> I know you all are early adopters of D, and that's a special breed 
>> different from the vast majority of programmers. But still, it would 
>> be  useful (in writing documentation) to know what language was your 
>> primary tool before coming to D. I also know that many of you are 
>> handy with multiple diverse languages, I just want to know the primary 
>> one.
>>
>> Asm?
>> C++?
>> C?
>> None (D's your first language)?
>> Java?
>> C#?
>> Python?
>> Lisp?
>> Ruby?
>> Delphi?
>> Perl?
>> Cobol? <g>
> 
> Life took me along this twisty road:
> 
> #                                           ,-> D
> #                          ,-> C -> Python <
> # BASIC/1a -> C++ -> Java <                 `-> Ruby
> #                          `-> PHP
> 
> Ack!  (I left out some things...)
> 
> I guess I'd claim C/C++, though.  And I'm now perfectly happy with D and 
> Ruby.  (Now just to get the two of them playing along together...)
> 
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

Perhaps once PyD is rock solid, Kirk could take a crack at RuD? (Rudy?) 
(RubyD?) The problem is roughly equivalent, allowing for eccentricities 
in their respective C API's.