Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Wolfgang Draxinger]

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.

1989 BASIC on the C64 ;-) when I got that at the age of 7

Turbo Pascal on my mother's 286 (that was about 1991 IIRC)

Oberon on the Amiga (never had an own Amiga though, I had always
to ask my frieds to use theirs)

ASM of course (x86, M68k, ARM, AVR)

C/C++ (Borland C++ and MSVC++ *yuck*)

Java - never used it seriously though. When I was seriously
interested it was slow like a tombstone and nowadays I prefer
for the Java-like Tasks

Perl
Python
Ruby

CLisp is a must to make your XEmacs purr.

And Lua is my language of chioce when it comes to embedd
scriptability into my programs.

I have also looked into Erlang, OCaml, Clean and Haskell, but not
compiled a single line of code written by me, though some
software on my system is written in those.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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