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>>I nominate FORTRAN. :-)
>>It is so appalling that any other language that they learn will come
>>as a pleasant relief !
>>

>Volker Bandke <vbandke@bsp-gmbh.com>
>Said by someone who probably never coded a single line of Fortran in his life.


Dem's fighting words ! Put yer dukes up matey !  :-)
But seriously,  I have coded a couple of university projects in
Fortran. But yes, I have never had to do it professionally.
( For which I thank, Moloch, Baal and Ceruneo

> And probably not a single line of code in any language, except possibly one.....

I don't want to turn this into a my ** is bigger than yours :-) but
for what it is worth ( about 10 cents ), I have programmed in:

Basic and VB ( for my sins ! )
Pascal
Modula-2
Ada
Occam ( yes ! I am that ancient...)
Fortan ( see above )
C
C++
Some Java

Currently  learning Haskell and Squeak and playing with Lisp and
Scheme. 

PS: Has anyone seen the great SICP video lectures that are available
free from MIT ?