>>>>VFP --my favorite STILL for data handling but missing the stuff of C#.net and delphi
>>>>C# -- most likely will be my language of choice for the future - i spend about 70% of my time with it now
>>>>Delphi -- best for communications programming a couple of years ago
>>>>Ada -- i had to write a lot of military/government apps using this so I got "comfortable" with it
>>>>C++ --if I were writing games
>>>>Assembler -- I used this way way back in the old days when I programmed keyboards and other medical devices
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>>>>I think you mean "Assembly" - assembler was the tool, assembly the language <s>
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>>>>Assembly...assembler...let's call the whole thing off.
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>>>The terms were used interchangeably, even if one wasn't strictly accurate.
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>>Also assemblers are processor specific - no-one has yet specified *which* assembler was their favourite :-}
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>>FWIW I remember liking Forth. Can't remember what I did with it (or how) - just that I liked it simply because it was different :-{
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>It brings back memories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

The Forth article references RPN... I did my first programming on an HP-29C. You used to be able to get HP T-shirts that read [Enter] > [=].