Carla Wilson-484785 (2/22/2013)
LOL! Does anyone remember APL, "A Programming Language"? That's what hooked me in 1975, because it was an interactive terminal (keyboard, no CRT) back when all the other computer programming classes at my university were key-punched cards with overnight processing. I used it to write some interactive basic statistics tutorials for the statistics class I had just taken (probability and permutations versus combinations).
Speaking of interactive, odd languages, I had quite a fascination with Forth. Basically reverse notation stack oriented environment, with a wonderful (dangerous) interaction between interpreter, compiler and application. Statements and functions could be immediate, or could be designated to come into play during compile/interpretation functions. The application could actually modify the interpreter and the compiler during runtime! With great power comes great responsibility.
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-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers --