>>>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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>For what it's worth I remember liking Forth. Can't remember what I did with it (or how) - just that I liked it simply because it was different :-{

BTW... How many folks 'round here have ever used MIXAL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIXAL ) ?

Shooting oneself in the foot using C was quite easy -- so easy that you didn't even have to try.
In FORTRAN I remember having to iteratively shoot each toe, and because lack of exception handling, the trigger kept being pulled despite having run out of bullets.
In standard Pascal it's nearly impossible to shoot yourself in the foot -- it won't let you. Turbo Pascal allowed you to turn off all the checks so you can shoot yourself in the foot almost as easily as you could in C.
Back when Visual Basic came out, I remember folks had so much fun playing with the visual widgets they forgot about shoot themselves in the foot.
IIRC, in Forth you foot in yourself shoot.

Forth didn't feel so alien to me -- but then again it might be because I preferred Hewlett Packard calculators...