[MaysonL]

I'm pretty much a self-taught programmer in my 50th year of programming, and the languages I've enjoyed most aren't so much languages as environments. They all provide one thing: quick feedback: not necessarily a REPL, but very close.

They've included: assembly language on III Comp-80/FR-80, Basic and Modula-2 on DEC Vaxen, Oberon-F/Black Box on 68K Macs, and Octave, Racket, and Scala(in Eclipse) on current Macs. My favorite is still the Black Box environment, and I mourn the fact thet Oberon Microsystems hasn't seen fit to port it to Intel Macs.