Programming Languages

Programming Languages dasil003 has used:

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AppleSoft BASIC

HyperTalk

bash

Javascript

PHP

Ruby

Haskell

AppleSoft BASIC

1985–1988

My earliest programming experience. I typed in many a program from magazines.

HyperTalk

1987–1990

Fun but I never did anything serious with it

bash

1990–

I was 12 the first time I got on a Unix system (Solaris). A 16-year-old ubergeek friend taught us the basics. 20 years later I continue accumulating knowledge.

Javascript

1994–

Incredible that I used this language in a cut-and-paste, trial-and-error fashion for over a decade before considering that maybe I should really learn how it worked. Much love to Douglas Crockford for showing the elegance of Javascript to the programming world.

1996–2003

C was how I cut my teeth on machine architecture and low-level programming. Since leaving school I've mostly done web and shell programming, but the lessons of C last a lifetime.

PHP

2000–2005

PHP made web programming easy, but it's limitations and lack of design eventually drove me out.

Ruby

2003–

I first got into Ruby for sysadmin-type scripting largely because I always loved the _idea_ of Perl but never had the patience to learn it deeper. Once Rails hit the scene I discovered Ruby meta programming and haven't looked back.

Haskell

2009–

I finally bought the Real World Haskell book and I'm working through it now. Pure functional programming is of great interest to me, especially since I spend my days working in Ruby which is in many ways the antithesis of Haskell.