My Favorite Languages
Language Proficiency
VBA Expert
Visual Basic Very Active
TI-83 BASIC Active
VBScript Active
Visual Basic .Net Very Active
BASIC Good
TI-89 BASIC Good
Pascal Intermediate (formerly advanced)
Perl Experienced
AWK Experienced
Bourne Shell Experienced
UNIX Shell Experienced
TI-nspire Basic Intermediate
AutoIt Intermediate
Batch File Intermediate
HTML Intermediate
GW-BASIC Confident
Scilab Confident
PL/I Rusty (formerly expert)
REXX Rusty (formerly expert)
FORTRAN IV Rusty (formerly advanced)
R Apprentice
Fortran Rusty (formerly advanced)
C Rusty
C++ Rusty
Delphi Rusty
360 Assembly Rusty (formerly advanced)
EXEC Rusty (formerly advanced)
EXEC2 Rusty (formerly advanced)
Script/GML (DCF) Rusty (formerly advanced)
Easytrieve+ Rusty (formerly advanced)
CLIST Rusty (formerly expert)
Maxima Beginner
Python Beginner
Simula Rusty (formerly advanced)
ALGOL Rusty (formerly advanced)
COBOL Rusty
Modula-2 Rusty
Prolog Rusty
Quick Basic Rusty
SAS Rusty (formerly advanced)
x86 Assembly Beginner

The languages I loved

  • FORTRAN IV : John Backus is my hero
  • ALGOL 60 : So clear
  • SIMULA 67 : Object orriented in 1967
  • Assembler 360 : Gene Amdahl, chief architect
  • PL/I : The swiss nife
  • Pascal : So simple
  • Rexx : So neat
  • awk : Cute
  • Perl : So flexible
  • Python : Nice

The languages I have forgotten

  • RPG II : Curious one
  • APL : So compact
  • PLEX (AXE) : Rare one
  • Prolog : So different and difficult
  • ADA : Nice one
  • ABAP : So so