Programming Languages

Programming Languages jorjun has used:

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BASIC

Sinclair BASIC

6502 Assembly

BBC Basic

Z80 Assembly

REXX

QBasic

COBOL

RPG

Turbo Pascal

AppleScript

VisualBasic

C++

Java

bash

Python

Jython

Objective-C

XSLT

Javascript

BASIC

1979–1992

Learned on commodore PET, and later on the BBC Micro in 1984. Slow run-time speeds spurred me to get into assembler.

Sinclair BASIC

1979–1985

Not much on the ZX-80, but definitely dabbled on the 64K ZX-Spectrum, wasn't just about playing games devised by Brit. Matthew Smith-the-Genius.

6502 Assembly

1984–1985

Learned this on the BBC Micro, wrote a disassembler so I could try and understand how RocketRaid worked :p

BBC Basic

1984–1985

Fun making animated graphics and very simple games. Sometimes accompanied by noise :p !

Z80 Assembly

1985

Dabbled on the Spectrum, lots of performance power but for lots of work. Found it more expressive than 6502

1985

Learned on IBM PC AT. Amazed at the speed, not thrilled the about crash-reboot cycles. Decided early on this was not my scene.

REXX

1985–1991

First dynamic language? Seen on the Amiga in1985, but I developed with it on the IBM AS/400 in 1990.

QBasic

1988–1992

Qedit was the editor, I believe. Not a bad editor for DOS...

COBOL

1989–1990

Nasty, and nobody would like to admit this one, but a fair number of large corporations loved it. Hence it was on the curriculum at Polytechnics.

RPG

1990–2004

People might be surprised how many big-name brands' information infrastructures were built using RPGII, RPGIII and RPGIV (yes ROMAN Numerals) before the internets. But a UK politician decided there should be a sudden skills shortage in the UK market. It was like sudden death meets homelessness. Be warned, you never quite know when your favourite programming language will become involved in an international race to the bottom for labour costs...

Turbo Pascal

1991–1992

Learned OOP for the first time. Productive language and elegant implementation, far better than standard Pascal.

AppleScript

1991–

One of those overly verbose 'friendly' languages. Did very little with it, besides recording Finder actions and checking the result.

VisualBasic

1992

Scratched an application itch I had with this language, liked the PASCAL similarities, otherwise dropped this one in mild disgust after just a few months.

C++

1992

I gave it a whole year of my time, and some serious study, had great results with some simple animation on a PowerPC Mac -wow the speed. But juggling with knives was not my idea of fun. People who code in this language should be paid danger money for their mental health.

Java

1996–1998

Bought ££ heaps of the books, jumped over numerous buggy implementation hurdles. Missed out on the massive corporate jobs bandwagon.

bash

1997–

This thing stinks. Seriously, it is only for haxx0rs who have low self esteem. It's a bit like all that obtuse accountant terminology. As if you would want steal an accountant's job, I ask yer... use PYTHON

Python

1998–

This is probably the least nerdy language out there at the moment. Was great to meet Scientists, and other non-tech-heads at the Euro conference 2009.

Jython

2000–2001

Some productive results with this, and from that moment I would not code another single line of Java

Objective-C

2002

Did learn enough to write a simple Mac freeware app' during first years of house arrest, when time was on my hands. Found it a tad too much like C++ to actually enjoy...

XSLT

2008

I think this was when XML jumped the shark.

Javascript

2009–

Patiently waiting for this one to go away. Can't muster enthusiasm for it, one of those necessary evils, I guess.