Programming Languages

Programming Languages bg4 has used:

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Pascal

LPC

Java

C++

Javascript

Perl

Miva Script

Assembly

PHP

XSLT

Groovy

Pascal

1988–1989

Writing silly stuff with a grade school friend. Convinced ourselves we could write cool text based games.

LPC

1996–2004

Programming LPC for Kingdoms MUD (kingdoms.se) that made me realize I was destined for a Computer Science degree. Ahh, the memories :)

Java

1997–

Started using Java in university data structures course, use it daily for datafeed applications.

C++

1997–

Mostly university work and maintaining legacy applications.

1998–2002

University work and independent study with professor.

Javascript

1998–

Both for the web and used ECMAScript with VXML applications I was working on around 2004. Nowadays it's Prototype, YUI etc.

Perl

1998–

Use it when it is the right tool for the job. Implemented a B2B ordering system for a company internship while in college.

Miva Script

1999–2005

Founded and developed for an e-commerce site which was scripted using this proprietary PHP-like language.

Assembly

2000–2002

MIPS R2000

PHP

2002–2009

Used it off and on for awhile. Spent about a year building a site using Zend/PHP but have not touched it since.

XSLT

2004–

Always need to use this once enough time has passed for me to forget it.

Groovy

2009–

Use Grails for side projects, really like it a lot.