Ancient Programmer
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              Fortran, Basic
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               Algol, PL/I
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   Sleuth, Chili, Macro, Sail, Teco, BAL
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   Emacs, C, Spitbol, Cobol, SQL, CRType
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 Java, PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, javascript
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               Tex, Latex
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