Programming Languages

Programming Languages edd has used:

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LOGO

6502 Assembly

LISP

Pascal

Ada

TeX

Haskell

Prolog

Java

Python

XSLT

C++

Javascript

Scheme

PHP

Ruby

LOGO

1986–

Wrote a game on the Amstrad PCW with it

6502 Assembly

1988–

LISP

1990–

Learned it while in high school on the BBC micro

Pascal

1991–

My first compiled language. Taught me about pointers

Ada

1992–1995

Was how programming was taught at the University of York while I was there. Odd, perhaps, but gave a context for understanding languages Java or C++ would not have done

TeX

1992–1996

LATEX rocks. Doggy book FTW.

1992–

Started with the DICE compiler on the Amiga

Haskell

1993–1994

Functional programming lectures at university...

Prolog

1993–

Java

1995–

First used it to write an advent calendar, with parallax snow and flying Santa

Python

1997–

Stumbled into it writing result maps for the UK general election

XSLT

1997–

XML freak, what more can I say

C++

1997–

Learned by writing an XML parser in Visual C++. Never really enjoyed or wanted to revisit though

Javascript

1997–

Used it since it appeared in Navigator, and also server-side in the Netscape server (remember that?) Only recently started to care for it, thanks to JQuery

Scheme

1997–

First learned it (using 'guile') because it had a good IRC library and I was writing bots. Revisit every other winter holiday, nursing my copy of the Little Schemer.

PHP

1998–

Couldn't have written my first startup without it, but then spent years looking for an alternative

2003–

Miguel de Icaza's Mono was my gateway, and I still think C# is the best compiled language available. Shame the Free Software world isn't very fond of it

Ruby

2005–

Got into it via Rails, powered my second startup and is still the day job