Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Kyle Furlong]

Jeff M wrote:
> On 2007-01-02 15:29:03 -0800, Walter Bright <newshound at digitalmars.com> 
> said:
> 
>> 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>
> 
> My primary language is PHP, but I have a good knowledge of the following 
> languages:
> 
> * PHP (including PHP Internals)
> * C
> * C++
> * C#
> * ECMAScript
> * SQL
> 
> At one time I knew these languages:
> 
> * Perl
> * Java
> 
> I've been learning D for the past two weeks.  It's like C++ except that 
> it doesn't make me want to shove knitting needles into my eyes.
> 
> -- Jeff
> 

I love these newcomer anecdotes. :D