i was working at a smallish financial institution, they asked anybody who doesn't want to do databases and unix shell scripting, step back! So my first languag

i was working at a smallish financial institution, they asked anybody who doesn't want to do databases and unix shell scripting, step back! So my first languages were APL, C, awk and a few 4GL databases, oracle, nomad. Now, i would start with ruby and python, then look at erlang, clojure, scala, haskell, ocaml, F#. i.e. lots of FP