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Programming Languages

Programming Languages undoingemptyvoid has used:

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Pascal
COBOL
BASIC
FORTRAN 66
6809 Assembly
Forth
x86 Assembly
Turbo Pascal
Common LISP
Modula-2
Assembly
Prolog
C
SNOBOL
C++
VisualBasic
Javascript
Java
Python
Ruby
PHP
Groovy
XSLT
C
C++
PHP
Pascal
1982–1985
College - first real language - had basic for one course before. It was okay, better than FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC. I liked LISP better and C better.
COBOL
1983–1988
Used in college for one semester then eventually at my second job wrote some COBOL code to test our HDBMS API. Never wrote any non-academic applications in it, don't like it.
BASIC
1984–1986
It was a dialect of BASIC called QNE Basic for using BTrieve files as a database in a LAN environment - primitive file locking and so forth. Used EXTENDED DOS Characters to "draw" screen. It was on an internship and I got to write an entire application from scratch with the actual customer... nearly agile!
FORTRAN 66
1984
Used it in college, strangely enough not for math. We used it for DBMS processing? It was still FORTRAN, but not as its creators intended.
6809 Assembly
1985
College course - final project for our class was implementing a symbolic debugger. Very cool. Loved Motorola over Intel - hate segment registers.
Forth
1985–1986
First part of my FORTH life was simply Leo's book until I bought and typed in the FIG Assembly listing for a FORTH interpreter. It was a hobby language and I almost got a job somewhere with it, telecom programming company.
x86 Assembly
1985
During college bought the FIG source listing for FORTH and typed it all in, x86 assembler. Then added a new function to position the cursor on the screen. Still liked Motorola better.
Turbo Pascal
1985–1986
Used in college for compiler class and more, but not until I had suffered some ancient Honeywell based teletype system to learn Pascal. Made my life 10 times easier and I was way more productive.
Common LISP
1986
Used in college for AI class (of course) and specifically for a senior project on pattern based natural language learning and parsing. Fun, thought it was an awesome language. Am working through a Ruby book to learn ruby while implementing a subset of LISP.
Modula-2
1986
Bought some early version of somebody's Modula-2 Compiler. Played around a bit but did not take it very far. When I found C I found myself not caring to go much further.
Assembly
1986–1990
Implemented parts of a pre-compiler for COBOL programs using a HDBMS access API, an interactive interpreter and core libraries for the HDBMS. All using IBM BAL/360. Weird non-stack based language.
Prolog
1986–1987
Bought C&M's book after working on a BYTE mag tutorial which had bugs.. so I fixed them and got the code running. Liked Prolog for logic IO sucked. I was hanging around with a work friend who was trying to bring it in, didn't get to code in it with the IDE - management was too cheap! Had to be Chim-chim in the trunk of the MACH5.
C
1986–2004
Started by self teaching from K&R. The best book ever for a language - short and get real work done. Took lab at university and did not use again until some work on legacy CAD system code.
SNOBOL
1986
Tried it, played around with some samples. Did not GROK it though.
C++
1997–2004
Self taught for new PC based project at work. Eventually read 2/3 of the ARM - nice reference. Used for parser code, service code, supporting Borland's crappy Smalltalk based collections. Used for all kinds of CAD elements and functions.
VisualBasic
1999–2004
Used for some UIs and mostly some scripting support for a CAD tool. Used it rarely - hope to never ever use it again.
Javascript
1999–2010
Used it most recently for a slide show based on JQuery and for some enhancements of Rails pages. Don't use it daily.. monthly.
Java
1999–2010
Bored with it... used to love it.
Python
2002
Simply used it to port some of NEHE's C tutorials to Python. Will use it again - its on the list.
Ruby
2007–
Using for a RAILs based product writing with non-work friends. Using Ruby is sort of buried in there and also for the Capistrano scripts. Spending some time at work-work using Ruby for fast one-off scripting tasks.
PHP
2008
Did a very brief spike in it for some DB change request web page, but decided to look into Grails instead.
Groovy
2008–
Picked up GRAILS and those GROOVY while spiking ideas for a DBMS CMS system. Ended up really using GROOVY in a GRAILS RSS Mashup to track build server statuses from SCRUM server feeds. Powerful, spoils me and I love the XML slurper! But slow, soooo slow due to runtime layers. Ruby is my new script friend... But in a Java shop Groovy and Grails are good to have.
XSLT
2010–
Once learned a little, but now really need it. Started playing around with some examples but mostly using it to learn it. It is powerful, and I think it could help. TBD.