From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2008-05-30T04:56:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language? On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Kyle Schmitt wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: >> In my case, and I suspect that I'm considerably older than the average >> participant here, I first learned Fortran I, and quickly branched out >> to learn many languages including 1620 assembler, IBM/360 Assembler, >> Snobol, Lisp 1.5, PL/I, APL\360, PDP/5 and 8 assembler, Algol, etc. > Errr. Lisp 1.5? I'm going to guess then, you were learning this > stuff in the mid to early sixties? Early 70s. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/