As I noted in my post I never was a seasoned programmer, I was a total hack, aw hell you guys prolly don't even know what a hack is, you probably think I had an area of expertise too. I HACKED SHIT TOGETHER and got PAID! I learned whatever I needed to know to accomplish what others couldn't. I probably forgot more about the languages I've used than most 'experts' know of any single language.
I couldn't possibly have listed all the languages and technologies I have done work with. But here's a sample....
BASIC, C, Pascal, Ada, COBOL, Perl, CGI, vbscript/asp, scripting (*ux shells mostly), VB, most recently PHP.
I am only interested in general purpose work, utilities, hell I don't even know yet exactly where I will go with this.
I was hoping for some informed guidance and expert advice but maybe slashdot isn't what it used to be...