Programming and time?

Anyone here know any programming languages, and if so, I have the following questions for you.

1. What is it?
2. Have you ever created a game with it?
3. How long did it take you to get to the fluency level you are currently at?
4. What platform do you program on?
5. Do you use any programs to assist you with coding?

I did some C++ at school (I think it was PASCAL actually) but I haven't done anything significant since then. I have just started to fiddle with RGSS by editing menus in RMXP, and I am slowly beginning to understand it. Very slowly. Although, its amazing how when you figure out one or two little things, it makes it easier and quicker to understand a few more things.

I learned a lot of different languages at uni, but never got to use any of them after starting my job - Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Basic , COBOL and probably a lot more that I've just forgotten since.

Apart from RMXP (which I haven't made my own game with, but have helped someone else make commercial games with), I've done a simple little platformer (freeware) written with Torque Game Builder.  That was nice to use, once I got the hang of it (having the source for a completed commercial game and being able to pull it to pieces really helped with the learning curve), but it has a few little issues and I won't use it because of the EULA conditions on commerical games.  For my next game, I'll possibly use TGB to prototype, but am looking at Flex for development.

When I have the time to sit down and learn it

Er... with TGB, I don't consider myself fluent (it uses a C++ engine, but has its own scripting language built on top).  My game runs on the PC, but I think there might be a TGB version available for Mac (being called to dinner, so can't look it up now), and they've just released an iPhone engine.

I don't use any programs to assist with coding apart from the standard editor - that'd take the fun out of it   I just have lots of windows/tabs open and keep lots of notes as I go.