From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T12:24:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Morton Goldberg wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
> 
>> Hope to see lots of others
> 
> male, 70, retired programmer (after 46 years of working at it)
> location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
> background: aerospace applications, communication systems, GUI design
> and implementation
> languages: (ranked by preference)
>    -1 Basic, C++, AppleScript
>     0 FORTRAN, PL/I, C, Forth, Java, Object Pascal
>    +1 Objective C, Smalltalk/V, Common Lisp/CLOS
>    +2 Logo, Eiffel, Scheme, Ruby
> 
> Also lots of assembler, especially early on. And a fair amount of work
> with Mathematica (+2) but I'm not sure it should be counted as a
> programming language (although it certainly contains one).
> 
> Regards, Morton
> 
> 
Dang ... someone beat me out for "doing it the longest". Not by much,
though.

I suppose I should rate languages too then.

Best: Forth, Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, R, Derive, Axiom, Erlang
Mediocre: Assembler, FORTRAN, Pascal, MATLAB
Worst: C, C++, Java, BASIC, Perl