>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>I think you mean "Assembly" - assembler was the tool, assembly the language <s>
>>>>>
>>>>>Assembly...assembler...let's call the whole thing off.
>>>>
>>>>The terms were used interchangeably, even if one wasn't strictly accurate.
>>>
>>>Also assemblers are processor specific - no-one has yet specified *which* assembler was their favourite :-}
>>>
>>>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] > [=].


I did my first rpn programming to print invoices in adobe postscript
We received the invoices in a text file. Then add the header + logo + lines and send that to a ps printer

As to calculators, I had a very nice one back in 1989 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0044/0044threeqtr.html

It had 64 k and I spent hours - days - weekends making programs in rpn. It broke a couple of years ago - much to my regret

ps: I don't find your hp-29C in the museum http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/chronological/index.html

My memory goes back to the hp-45. The teacher had one