Programming Languages

Programming Languages thumper has used:

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1986

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1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

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1999

2000

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2002

2003

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BASIC

Turbo Pascal

Pascal

LISP

Prolog

Assembly

Modula-2

Ada

Haskell

C++

REXX

Javascript

Python

Perl

Java

BASIC

1986

Brief dabbling trying out programming. Had an old games console that booted into basic if there was no cartridge. Atari 400 I think.

Turbo Pascal

1987–1990

I got Turbo pascal 5.5 for my 15th birthday. Didn't get objects at all.

Pascal

1991–1994

Pascal was a teaching language at Otago University at that stage.

1992–

Part of Comp.Sci degree. Unfortunately found too much C++ which was still mostly C (calloc and memset(this, 0, ...) of all things).

LISP

1992–

Started in uni, continued as emacs scripting. Don't use it much.

Prolog

1992

Yet another language used solely for comp.sci. degree.

Assembly

1992

Part of Comp.Sci degree. Never want to touch it again.

Modula-2

1992

Taught as part of the algorithms and data structures course. Never used it outside university.

Ada

1993

Required for software engineering paper for comp.sci degree. Always seemed a bit weird to me.

Haskell

1994

Functional programming at uni. Not since.

C++

1994–

C++ was the language of my first real job. I still like it, but you can shoot yourself in the foot quite easily.

1994

Also part of functional programming at uni.

REXX

1995–1996

Used in my first real job on OS/2. VX-REXX for visual rexx, oh what fun.

Javascript

2001–

It took me a while to get into web development.

Python

2001–

Started learning python after reading Eric Raymond's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Still my favourite language.

Perl

2001–2003

Needed perl for work. Once I found python, I never touched perl again.

Java

2001–2004

Another work language. Good to branch out.