User:PatGarrett

My Favorite Languages
Language	Proficiency
VBA	Active
Visual Basic .NET	Active
360 Assembly	Good
BASIC	Good
Pascal	Good
Scilab	Good
TI-83 BASIC	Good
TI-89 BASIC	Good
VBScript	Good
Visual Basic	Good
AWK	Experienced
Bourne Shell	Experienced
Korn Shell	Experienced
AutoIt	Intermediate
Batch File	Intermediate
C Shell	Intermediate
Perl	Experienced
C	Rusty
C++	Rusty
PL/I	Rusty
REXX	Rusty
Fortran	Rusty
JCL	Rusty
Maxima	Apprentice
Python	Apprentice
R	Apprentice
x86 Assembly	Apprentice
ALGOL 60	Rusty
CLIST	Rusty
Delphi	Rusty
Easytrieve+	Rusty
EXEC	Rusty
EXEC2	Rusty
FORTRAN IV	Rusty
Modula-2	Rusty
Prolog	Rusty
Quick Basic	Rusty
SAS	Rusty
Script/GML (DCF)	Rusty
Simula	Rusty
Excel	Experienced
HTML	Experienced
SQL	Experienced

The languages I loved

• FORTRAN IV : John Backus† was a hero
• ALGOL 60 : So clear
• Simula : Object oriented in 1967
• 360 Assembly : I prefer the name Assembler S/360
• PL/I : The swiss knife
• Pascal : So simple
• Rexx : So neat
• awk : Cute
• Perl : So flexible
• Python : Nice

The languages I have forgotten

• COBOL : So verbose
• RPG : A curious one
• APL : So compact
• PLEX (AXE) : For programming Ericsson AXE telephone exchanges
• Prolog : So different and difficult
• Ada : Nice one
• ABAP : So so