>>Turbo Pascal as mutated by C then C++ as mutated by Xbase... *s*
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>I went from Basic to dBASE to Turbo Pascal to C to SCI to C++ to VFP (with a couple minor languages like DataFlex thrown in for good measure).
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>It would be interesting to hear others' evolutions (in brief).
Let's see...Basic to Pascal to PL/I (step backward) to C to SAS (another step mostly backward) to FP to VFP...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.