>>What language that you have used do you like most? And are there any you have particularly disliked?
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>This seems like a simple, easy to answer question but I can't come up with a most liked or disliked answer.
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>To me, I loved them all because I was continually learning something new.
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>From learning analog computers in the late 50s, where we programmed them by adjusting a voltage that represented time, distance, etc. to the beginning of the digital age in the early 60's where it all really began for me....now we were using a solid state digital counter instead of the voltage and we had devices, such as nixie tubes to display the numbers. Machine language was the primary language.
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>Next, in the late 60's, I got training on an IBM general purpose digital computer that was designed primarily to solve navigation problems. We used machine language, assembly and fortran. Fortran was my first introduction to higher level languages and was pretty tough on me to learn because I really liked working in the 1's and 0's world. Even though I never mastered it, I still liked it.
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>Around 1976, I took a job teaching digital computers, because a community college needed someone that could set up new courses on the Intel 8008 and 8080 microprocessors, I had never seen one, but I committed to doing it because I already had a good digital background. This was all about designing computer circuits and programming them to solve problems. We were able to reduce the 1's and 0's input by using Octal keyboards. Again, I really enjoyed this period.
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>Next, I bought a TRS-80 CP/M computer that came with a BASIC language. I learned the language and developed some pretty good programs for a local manufacturing plant.
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>Next came PLC (programmable logic controllers), MS/IBM basic(s), dbase, clipper, foxbase, foxplus, foxpro, and VFP. I earned a pretty good living from all of them and I enjoyed learning all of them. (Turbo Pascal was in there somewhere, along with some others that I can't remember.)
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>From the early 80's till now I've preferred the xBase world, but I can't think of any one of the languages that would fit the dislike category.
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>I loved the whole ride.

Wow, that's quite a resume.

I pretty much agree with your conclusion. COBOL was my least favorite but it wasn't a completely horrible time.