Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Don Clugston]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>> 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
> 
> When commenting about C++ to coder friends I usually describe it as 
> making me "want to dig inside my skull and scrape out the pain."
> (It's a phrase I took from an excellent noir story)

I feel that way about VBA's bug-oriented programming -- any old garbage 
will compile without complaint. The way that compiler bugs can corrupt 
your *source code* is just brilliant.