My perl looks like C code - at least that is what I'm told =).

I took Fortran and Quick Basic in High School - and one of my earliest memories of my father was going to work with him when he was called in for emergencies - he was a Main Frame operator and then later a main frame programmer. So I remember punch cards and these huge tape reels.

I have so far been able to squeek by not learning Java or PHP or Ruby on Rails... Java is the only Computer Science class I dropped way back when - I really don't like it. But... work is forcing me to learn it <sigh>. It was on my "other kind of list", but that is how the cookie crumbles. =)