Hi Bruce ---

My .02 ---

Went from COBOL to Assembler to BASIC to Pascal to Condor3 to Dataflex to dBase2 to dBase3 to Clipper to FBase to FP2 (skipped FP1 fortunately) to VFP. Went down some fruitless offramps like Prolog, LISP, Logo, Quicksilver as well :)

>>>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).
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>Let's see...Basic to Pascal to PL/I (step backward) to C to SAS (another step mostly backward) to FP to VFP...