Programming Languages

Programming Languages shywolf9982 has used:

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1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Turbo Pascal

VisualBasic

bash

LISP

Java

Prolog

PHP

Python

Javascript

Groovy

Haskell

Turbo Pascal

1995–1997

Did a few things with it in the first years of HS, where we had a mini-course on it during math (?) hours.

VisualBasic

1996–2000

First language I started using "seriously" back when I had just started High School. A behemot, and probably ugly, but I don't remember much of it. I never realized it was "object-oriented".

1998–2005

Started using it in HS, we had 8hr/week of it (tech. class). As Linus says "it's not a real language, just a way to write semi-portable assembly". But is good at that.

bash

1999–

The swiss army knife of the sysadmin. The fact you usually end up stabbing yourself is why there are so many openings for sysadmins :)

Java

2002–2006

Started using it in University. Showed me how important interfaces (formal or not) are, and how good it is not to deal with pointers.

Prolog

2002

Had to study it for a University exam. I thought it was very cool, as concept.

LISP

2002

Had to learn it for an exam at University (along with PROLOG and Ada). I failed the exam. The year after it was replaced by Python. I passed the exam. Good for configuring yer emacs, though.

PHP

2004–2009

The end year is more of a hope than a certainty: it's quite ubiquitous and sometimes it's simply impossible to avoid it.

Python

2005–

I originally started using it to replace a set of utterly complex bash scripts. It grew to become my main language

Javascript

2006–

I started using it heavily when I started with web developement. Took me a good two months to discover prototyping. Took me two years more to fully get it. I'm nowadays on decent terms with it, although I can't imagine doing a full blown application with it.

2006

I started using it to see how it was. Felt exactly like Java.

Groovy

2009

I had to write, really quickly, a desktop app. Found griffon, which is a rails-like framework to write desktop JVM apps. I was productive immediately and I really liked it. Brought me and Java back on speaking terms.

Haskell

2009–

Slowly trying to learn it. I love its closeness to math. Sadly, I don't have much time to dedicate to it.

Ada

A University exam had it among the languages you had to know to pass said exam. I have close to no memory of it: grey language.

BASIC

Possibly the first language I ever used, when I was 11 or 12, at school. They made us write a program to calculate the area of a triangle.

x86 Assembly

Had to use it at University. I sometimes write useless routines in it just for fun (and to keep my mind fresh on what actually goes on "in the box").

C++

Used on-and-off at times. I truly have serious problems coding in C++, but this space is too small for the rant that will follow :)