Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

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