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>

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>

Primarily Java, at least recently.  I figure lurkers are included in this survey :)

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.
> 

basic / c / c++

I would have done ASM (and still want to) but I can't seem to find references.

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>

My programming language journey:

Java (School) -> C# -> D

I would say D is now my native language, with C# still easy to slip back into.

Modula, Oberon, ( 4GLs...) and still convinced that you have borrowed some
ideas from Mr. Wirth. <g> Well done! Can not resist... what about nested
modules in 2.0?
Bjoern

"Walter Bright" <newshound@digitalmars.com> schreef in bericht news:enepvj$20iq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 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>

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>

Assembler, C, C#

Have a look at Prof. Randy H.(frankly forget his correct name)  HLA  High level Asm. and his online book The Art of ASM programming. Very readable ! hth bjoern
> I would have done ASM (and still want to) but I can't seem to find
> references.

> I just want to know the primary one.

C++



--
Tomasz Stachowiak

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>

I'd say I'm still a C and C++'er before a D'er, but that's at least partially because of momentum. I have too many projects written in C and C++ to go D'ifying everything :)

 - Gregor Richards

That would be Randall Hyde.

His website is here: webster.cs.ucr.edu