The summer of 1969, I graduated with a BSci Physics/Mathematics degree and ended up working for a small firm in Detroit that makes automobiles. They were hiring translators -- people with enough hard science to be able to talk to the Engineers and Designers, and enough Maths to be able to hold their own with the Programming side. I did that for three months, and then transfered into the Programming unit, learned PL/I and the JCL (IBM's Job Control Language) to start and got into the Assembly language, so I could start to make sense out of the core-dumps. I have been sort of a language junkie ever since.

The Languages that I remember writing production code in:

1. PL/I
2. Fortran (two versions for IBM, one for CDC)
3. Assembly Language (IBM, CDC, mostly, with a little x36 lately)
4. COBOL
5. Faster & Hyper-Faster (You don't want to know. Really)
6. RGP and other RPG-like things (DYL-360, Easytrieve)
7. Java (hated it)
8. Perl (loved it)
9. UNIX Shell
10. PHP (it's like Perl on tranquilizers)
11. SQL

Languages I've picked up but not written for-hire code in:

• Lisp (Classical and Modern)
• Basic (Classical and Modern)
• C
• C++
• Pascal
• Algol/Jovial
• GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System)
• SAS (The Statistical Analysis System)
• SABRE (Yup, the Airline Reservation System; again, it's a long story)
• JESS (Java Expert Shell System)
• XML/XSLT
• awk
• sed
• Unix Programmer's Tool Kit

Languages I want to look at sometime:

• Haskel
• Prolog
• Javascript
• Scheme/Guile
• CSS/DHTML
• AJAX