Programming Languages

Programming Languages pydanny has used:

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AppleSoft BASIC

Commodore BASIC

FoxPro

Javascript

ColdFusion

Perl

Java

XSLT

PHP

VBScript

Python

Lua

TeX

AppleSoft BASIC

1980–1985

My first programming language! I fell in love immediately and as a teenager I started writing games. My first game was 'free insults', followed by a Star Trek game that was popular in high school that I also redid in Python a few years back. The last game I wrote was an arcade effort that was a submarine versus destroyer contest that had my first attempt at 'artificial intelligence and used some pretty spiffy hi-resolution graphics.

Commodore BASIC

1987

I had a Commodore 128 that I used in college for word processing and games. When I first got it I tried my hand at programming on it.

FoxPro

1997–2000

I did Foxpro for DOS while working for the Navy as a civilian contractor. It was fun because it was kind of like a more sane version of the AppleBasic I did back in 1980-1985. At the time I felt jealous of the VisualBasic people because they had a fancy IDE. In retrospect, the naked ASCII files and text based editor were awesome training for how I preferred to write Java and how I love to write Python.

Javascript

1998–

Mostly have used it in short periods of high intensity. Like everyone else, I have a love/hate relationship. YUI leaned me more towards love and JQuery even more so.

ColdFusion

1999–2007

I used ColdFusion off and on for 8 years. Regardless of what people think about the language, it was the community that did me in. There are a lot of nice people in the community, but their personality doesn't prevent them from writing a lot of spaghetti code. Many of them stay willfully ignorant of best practices or updates in their tool of choice.

Perl

1999

Dabbled with Perl. Loved the regular expressions but revisiting my work months later made me realize a flaw of regex. Or perhaps I just wrote spaghetti code?

Java

2000–2006

Over time I became more and more unhappy with coding Java and thought it was my career. Then I found Python and realized it was the language.

XSLT

2000–2002

I'm not a fan of XSLT. Not at all.

PHP

2000–2003

I used this a few times but was pretty unhappy with it.

VBScript

2000

I worked with VBScript in the browser for a few months at Battelle. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how much easier it was to use than JavaScript. In retrospect it was easier to use because I did not fully understand JavaScript at that time.

Python

2005–

Lua

2012

Used it for game programming for a startup. Fun stuff but haven't needed to use it since.

TeX

2013–

Specifically LaTeX. Started using it with Two Scoops of Django. Use it for many other documentation efforts, mostly for commercial work.