I was trained on Scheme 20 years ago. Scheme was the moment when I felt I "got" programming right (before that I did lots of Pascal, basic, assembler,etc). Now

I was trained on Scheme 20 years ago. Scheme was the moment when I felt I "got" programming right (before that I did lots of Pascal, basic, assembler,etc). Now I do Python. And with Python I "got" something too : writing tools, coding, etc. is not like mathematics (like Scheme) anymore. It became a social activity. I'm in the field of ERP right now (arguably not the most theory-oriented stuff). It's because I spend most of time using API's by other and making API's in the hope that they will be used by other (none of those API being worth much in terms of computer "science" (stuff like algorithm). I'm also building tools to augment productivity of other people; which is also quite social. So from the abstract Scheme programming, I've moved to Python social programming. That keeps me happy (I must confess that studying Voronoi diagrams, or 3D structures packing remain what made me really tick :-) )