>>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).

BASIC, MASM, Fortran (66,77), forth, C, dBase (][, III, III+), FoxBase, FoxPlus, MFoxPlus, FoxPro, Grasp, C++, VB, FPW, VFP and various others...