Programming Languages

Programming Languages westonruter has used:

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2002

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2006

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2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Perl

Javascript

PHP

VisualBasic

C++

VBScript

XSLT

Python

Perl

1998–

My programming mother tongue. I ate up that Perl For Dummies book I bought at Barns & Noble in Federal Way, Washington! First project? RuterSearch: http://weston.ruter.net/projects/rutersearch/ I still use Perl a lot of text processing and for various system utilities. PHP has replaced Perl for web development, which I hope to replace with Python ASAP.

Javascript

1999–

My favorite language. Excited for it to become ubiquitous on the serer as is it is on the client with the CommonJS initiative.

PHP

2000–

My love for Perl gave way to the ubiquity of PHP.

VisualBasic

2001–2004

Thank God I only had to use this for a couple classes.

2001–2003

Superseded by C++

C++

2002–2005

For my CS program at Seattle Pacific University.

VBScript

2003–2005

A scorn upon mankind. Forced to use with Classic ASP, although I'd try to use JScript whenever possible.

XSLT

2004–

First learned for a Syntax Tree Drawer project: an XSLT would translate an input into a structured SVG file.

Python

2009–

Started working with Python and Django for the Open Scriptures project. Trying to repent of PHP, but reform of Perl.