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Welcome, bravotic!
FWIW, my heart is automatically warmed whenever seeing the character sequence 'USENET'.
Also, I can't help but ask what your top few programming languages are.
Hey inquiry,
I'm also a big USENET fan. I hung out in the SeaMonkey group for a while before the Mozilla news server got shut down prematurely. I really would love to see a small net sort of like gemini emerge on USENET again, but the protocols that USENET uses are absolutely abysmal! Maybe someone can do what gemini did to gopher ;).
Anyway, to answer your real question, my top few programming languages are extremely stereotypical of someone in my interest group. My most used language is C (preferably ANSI 89, but sometimes up to 99). Apart from that, Java has always been a comfort language for me, since everything and the kitchen sink is included by default. Its always nice to have a cross platform GUI toolkit just built directly into the runtime, then you don't have to "instruct" your users on how to install libraries. I am also a massive scheme fan. I currently am at the school where one of the developers of Racket works, so being here, you either have to learn to love lisp, or learn to get the hell out :).
Anyway, its nice to meet you. I look forward to interacting with this fun little community!