Tech Favourites

By way of introduction and to give perspective, here are a few of my favourite technical things:

Past

• Basic Plus on a PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E - you never forget your first programming experience
  
• MDBS III (now Titanium?) - you never forget your first DBMS
  
• Qunix (now QNX) - most efficient operating system
  
• XIM (now Zim) - most efficient/elegant data manipulation language
  

Present

• REBOL - elegant language, made coding fun again
  
• OSX - most productive/pleasant operating system experience
  
• 17" Powerbook - nice
• A9 - best search engine interface
  
• Python - the language I have been looking for all of my life
  
• PostgreSQL - made me excited about data management for the first time in years
  

As you might have guessed, efficiency and elegance are very important to me.