R

In my insomina hour overnight I read a tutorial on R (programing language implementation of S++ statistical software), which all the kool kidz in my field are using now.  Looks like I can use it for population genetic simulations. I have always used BASIC, and still "think in" that language, and I never learned a compilable language (I took a Pascal course in college and have read part of a book on object oriented C but neither of those stuck with me).  R speeds up and simplifies a lot of array/matrix stuff (like sorting), that are key to the way I write individual based simulations.  If I get some time, I'll try to write the Converse Antagonistic Pleiotropy model simulations in R; it will be a good excuse to learn the language.