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
Microsoft Small Basic	Good
AWK	Experienced
Bourne Shell	Experienced
Korn Shell	Experienced
UNIX Shell	Experienced
Bourne Again SHell	Good
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