When I saw the term Verilog, I immediately thought of Versalog slide rule. I went through undergrad engineering school using a K&E slide rule and figuring out where the decimal point should go in the answer. What a pain. No hand calculators back then.
The first computer language I learned was ALGOL in grad school. FORTRAN was a step backwards from ALGOL, but it was what the company I went to work for used.
My youngest son is a computer scientist programming in languages I’ve never heard of.
As you’ve probably learned via internet by now, Verilog is a Hardware Description Language - I chose it to distinguish myself as a (digital) HW geek vs. you software guys.
I never had to use a slide rule for real but I learned how to do the basics. I can also use an abacus! :-)
I went to school in the early 80s as the department was in transition. The first programming language I took was FORTRAN (with punch cards!). Then in the middle of the degree CS instruction switched to Pascal (bleh).
I used MC6809 assembly language in the EE dept.
Sadly I never used C in school which would have been very helpful. I rapidly began using it in industry though!
I can dabble in C++ but never went down the path of Java++ or any of that other nonsense that is used today.
Maybe it’s the HW geek in me but I find that the level of obfuscation in the object-oriented languages makes it difficult to know exactly WHAT is happening on the hardware.
BTW a better category (instead of editor) would more likely be:
RELIGION : Emacs
Enough geek talk for now! :-)