I was in the software industry from 1980 to 2000, as a programmer, DBA, database designer, and corporate instructor. I quit my job to become a stay at home dad, and three years later went back to school to become certified as a high school math teacher. I`ve been teaching high school math and computer science since then. I`ve dabbled in most commonly used languages (and many pretty offbeat ones) at one time or another. I`d say that of non-proprietary languages, I`ve gone the farthest with COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, PL/1 (PL/C dialect), Object Pascal, C, C++, Java, and various BASICs. I`m currently most active with Java and VBA. For your amusement: I`ve also used Scheme, Prolog, APL, Eiffel, Sather, SNOBOL (SPITBOL dialect), Little Smalltalk, Alice, assembly language (8086 / 68000 / IBM System/370), FORTH, Awk, Icon, and various proprietary languages acquired by Computer Associates, my former employer. Used in this context means that I`ve written at least one simple program, but more than a Hello, World. ©