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I have been a progammer ever since I touched a computer.  On the first TRS-80, I learned BASIC.  I taught myself most of the language back in high school and that got me interested learning Computer Science when I went onto University.

In University, they frist taught me Pascal.  I liked what I learned about Pascal back in the early 80s and within a short period of time, I could get it to do about anything I needed.  Other than the language, I learned how to format and make my programs readable, which I carried onto the many other languages I would learn over the years.

The list of languages that I have learned over the years seems very long.  The languages include assembly, Fortan, LISP, C, ane C++, just to name a few.  Over the years, I have settled on using Perl for most of my current work.  I do not program a lot any more as I am not being paid for my programming skills, but I continue to use programs to solve some day to day problems.  I find Perl to be a very good language and because of CPAN, there are many libraries available to assist in a developing a solution.

But today, I find myself drawn to Python.  I am not sure why, may be I am just up for the challenge of a new programming language, may be I hear there are a lot of Google tools based on Python, or may be I hear it is a better language than Perl.  I am not certain.  I have written a few short programs so far in Python and this weekend I picked up "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz.

Either way, I am going to start to learn Python and see where it takes me.  I will keep you updated with my progress.