This was a great trip down memory lane for an old retired sometime programmer and software engineer. I learned programming in K & K BASIC on a GE time share m

This was a great trip down memory lane for an old retired sometime programmer and software engineer. I learned programming in K & K BASIC on a GE time share machine and FORTRAN II on an IBM 7090. I wrote production code in many of these languages (BASIC, COBOL, PL/I (not much), Pascal, SmallTalk (my favorite)). Among the odder "language" projects I ever worked on was a cross-compiler written in Pascal for a report generator. The compiler generated COBOL as it's object code, which we chose because of it's facility with reading database records, and formatting output for fixed spacing line printers. I'm familiar with all but a couple of the languages in his list, and wrote code in most of them, although in some cases not code that ever went into a product or production environment. ML and CLU, though, I've never touched.