Well if you want my path it was something like: BASIC, 6502 assembly, Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, Scheme, Perl, shell (sh, tcsh, sed, awk, etc), Java, Python. A bi

Well if you want my path it was something like: BASIC, 6502 assembly, Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, Scheme, Perl, shell (sh, tcsh, sed, awk, etc), Java, Python. A bit of PHP in there somewhere. Some TCL and lua and ruby too. I may have the order a bit mixed up. I started with perl 4 and got to be reasonably adept, using it as my primary language from maybe 96-2000. I've used Python as my primary language since 2000. I'm pretty fluent in C, Java, Objective C and shell. Anyway, I had to fix a couple hundred line Perl script the other day and it had me scratching my head for long enough that I was pretty close to rewriting the whole thing in Python. One thing I really love about Python is that it's trivial to test bits and pieces of code via the REPL.