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Programming Languages

Programming Languages tlesher has used:

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AppleSoft BASIC
Commodore BASIC
6502 Assembly
C++
C
HyperTalk
Javascript
Python
Go
C++
C
Go
AppleSoft BASIC
1984–1990
The summer after my fifth grade year my school got in a shipment of Apple IIe computers. Since they were going to sit idle until fall, they lent me one for the summer. Did a ton of Applesoft BASIC programming from then until I graduated from high school.
Commodore BASIC
1986–1990
Got a C128 for Christmas in 1986. Spent about 40% of my free time playing Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Silent Service, and Red Storm Rising, and the other 60% trying to make clones of them.
6502 Assembly
1988–1990
After seeing one too many commercial games that appeared to consist of one line of BASIC (10 SYS 49152, of course), I started learning 6502 assembly language. I used an APPLE II programmer's guide and list of system routine addresses hand-copied from a friend's C64 Programmer's Reference to hand-code machine language. When I got to college and learned what an "assembler" was, I wept for the midnight hours I lost recalculating relative BNE/BEQ addresses after inserting instructions.
C++
1991–
It puts bread in my jar.
C
1991–2012
At University they taught C in the first semester freshman CS courses, and C++ in the second semester. I somehow placed out of first semester but ended up learning C on the side when I started running a DikuMUD (ElnathMUD).
HyperTalk
1992–1993
Built a distributed ticketing system with Hypercard for the Uni computing center.
Javascript
1997–2013
Python
1999–
Topmost tool in my toolbox nowadays.
Go
2013–
Just dabbling so far.