JohnC wrote:
> 
> But I recall programming my Sega SC-3000 in Basic, and later at high school commanding a "turtle" around the screen with the Logo language. Those were the days! 

Ah, the Logo hokey-pokey:

FD 100
BK 100
FD 100
RT  90
LT  90
BK 100
RT 720

And that's what it's all about :-p


Sean (it's been a long day)

C.  I got a beginners book on it in 8th grade which really increased my interest in programming (before that I had played with VB6... but that was VB6).  Then, right around the time I first heard about D I learned about OOP and couldn't go back to straight C.  D is so far the cleanest and richest language I've played with that incorporated OOP; others have included Java and C#, which I disliked for requiring massive VMs and not having first-class functions, and C++, which I detested for its class definition syntax and header files.

RPG III, RPG400, Visual RPG(Caviar)

Primary: C++

Others: Ruby, C, MIPS Assembly, and if I'm forced, Python and Perl
Inactive: BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Ada, x86 Assembly

--Steve

Tyro wrote:
> My Journey:
> 
>     D -> C++ :( -> D

That's my favorite reply so far <g>. Thanks for the good chuckle.

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound@digitalmars.com)'s article
> 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>

little C but lots of Fortran 90/95 and Python, essentially for scientific computing and visualization (numerical simulation)

Tyro wrote:
> My Journey:
> 
>     D -> C++ :( -> D

Aahahaaha.. "Fatal Tragedy" & "Finally Free" to comment this statement with two great songs of Dream Theater. :D

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.

I'm coming from C (with 68K and PPC Asm in).

Hoping for D instead of C++ and Objective-C,
(or the Perl/Ruby and Java/.NET languages...
But I don't consider D in the same "section"
as those scripting and managed alternatives?)

But my primary tool was (and it still is) C.
--anders

Walter Bright escribió:
> 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>

In order of time spent programming:

Java
PHP
C#
C++
ASM (just for a project in university)

C and Java are both primaries for me, depending on the project. We go way back.