-When I graduated college we learned Pascal, Modula2 and Ada. When I started my first "professional" programming position Perl was the language of choice (partly because Perl could be easily transformed into the ubiquitous CGI scripts of the era). As of this writing I'm using Python as my main development language, and I foresee that at some point I'll likely have to look into the other languages that are becoming more common.
+When I graduated college we learned Pascal, Modula2 and Ada. Unfortunately those languages were starting to decline in popularity in favor of C. When I started my first "professional" programming position Perl was the language of choice (partially because Perl could be easily transformed into the ubiquitous CGI scripts of the era, and was considered superior to scripting tools like `awk` and traditional shell scripts). As of this writing I'm using Python as my main development language, and I foresee that I'll have to look into other languages to expand my programming career.