Programming Languages

Programming Languages jtauber has used:

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BASIC (TRS-80 Model I)

BASIC

Color Basic

6809 Assembly

Assembly

AppleSoft BASIC

6502 Assembly

Sinclair BASIC

Prolog

BBC Basic

Turbo Pascal

Pascal

C++

TeX

bash

Perl

LISP

Tcl

BETA

PostScript

Scheme

Java

VisualBasic

Javascript

XSLT

Jython

Python

x86 Assembly

Z80 Assembly

Forth

BASIC (TRS-80 Model I)

1981

My Dad borrowed a Dick Smith System 80 (a TRS-80 Model 1 clone) and photocopied a book on BASIC for me. He also wrote some programs for it himself for me to study from.

BASIC

1981–1986

Used a bunch of different dialects but mostly Color Basic and (especially) AppleSoft Basic.

Color Basic

1982–1984

TRS-80 CoCo (the original 16K silver) one is the first computer my family owned. A don't remember a huge amount about programming on it but I do remember playing text adventures and wishing I could write my own.

6809 Assembly

1983–

A truly beautiful instruction set. The first assembly language I learnt and still my favourite. I learnt using the EDTASM cartridge for the TRS-80 CoCo.

Assembly

1983–

Dabbled with 6809 Assembly then moved to 6502. Have occasionally used x86 but it seems awful in comparison.

Sinclair BASIC

1984–1986

Dabbled a bit in mid-80s as many of my friends in Brunei had these when I had my Apple IIe

AppleSoft BASIC

1984–1988

Was my main programming language from the age of 10 to 14. I remember the things I was most interested in writing were text adventures, 3D graphics and artificial intelligence.

6502 Assembly

1984–

Learnt this on the Apple ][

Prolog

1985–

Initially learnt (or attempted to learn) from the Turbo Prolog manual without having a copy of the software itself. I was 11 or 12, wanted to build artificial intelligence software and Fifth Generation languages were all the rage.

BBC Basic

1985–1986

A neighbour had a BBC Micro. I mostly played Elite on it but did do a bit of coding.

Turbo Pascal

1987–1990

Was the main language programmed with while I was in high school (and actually briefly got to use it *at* high school). Also the first language I did OO with (version 5.5 had OO extensions).

Pascal

1987–

People may knock it but I think Pascal was in some respects the Python of its time. Clean syntax and focus on data structures. And hey, if it's good enough for Knuth...!

C++

1990–1992

Learnt C++ after someone in the industry told me you couldn't get a job coding Pascal.

1992–

bash

1993–

TeX

1993–

Perl

1994–1998

Used Perl 4 a lot and Perl 5 a bit. Haven't touched it since I learnt Python, though.

LISP

1994

I initially had to learn this for a computational linguistics class. Never used it outside of that although have a new found appreciation for it now.

Tcl

1995

BETA

1995

I dabbled with this just before Java came out.

Scheme

1996

I learnt this because of DSSSL, the precursor to XSLT, which was based on Scheme. I was an intern at Sun Labs and actually learnt from Guy Steele's own copy of The Little Schemer.

1996

1996–2008

1996

1997–2002

1997–

1998–2008