>>>>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)

I think what I liked was that the number of core operations was so limited but the language so extensible that you effectively ended up writing your own language that was specific to the task at hand. I often miss being able to work on real-time embedded systems.....