Programming languages
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- daven
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Programming languages
Just wondering: How many programming languages do you know? It seems like every couple of months I have to pick up another one.
The list of stuff I know in descending order:
PHP
Javascript
SQL
HTML
PERL
XML
ColdFusion
Java
Delphi
C
VB
Lisp (yay emacs!)
Edit:
I am using the blanket term "programming languages" to refer to all computer languages which somehow or another manipulate data.
The list of stuff I know in descending order:
PHP
Javascript
SQL
HTML
PERL
XML
ColdFusion
Java
Delphi
C
VB
Lisp (yay emacs!)
Edit:
I am using the blanket term "programming languages" to refer to all computer languages which somehow or another manipulate data.
Last edited by daven on Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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fractalvibes
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Languages I have used to one degree or another:
VBScript
VB
Delphi
Pascal
javascript
cobol
C
PHP
ADA
PL1
GREP
SED
AWK
Larch
Assembler language for various machines/chips
CICS
PreScript II printer langauge
SQL
Procedural SQL for DB2
for starters - caveat - am certainly not current nor remember the particular
syntaxes for all these!
Phil J.
VBScript
VB
Delphi
Pascal
javascript
cobol
C
PHP
ADA
PL1
GREP
SED
AWK
Larch
Assembler language for various machines/chips
CICS
PreScript II printer langauge
SQL
Procedural SQL for DB2
for starters - caveat - am certainly not current nor remember the particular
syntaxes for all these!
Phil J.
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fractalvibes
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All the above, over the course of time! Some via school courses at an earlier time, others learned as a matter of neccessity via books and whatever online tips and tricks can be picked up. Once you have the programming mindset, mainly a matter of learning the syntax and mindset
of a particular language.
Phil J.
of a particular language.
Phil J.
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Languages are fairly irrelevant, imho. The art/science/skill is programming and/or scripting and the language is merely the medium. A skilled programmer can move into a new language with very little difficulty; it's learning how to make the language work that is the hard part.
I have programmed in UCSD Pascal, but it was a long time ago and I'm not going to claim that I "know" that language today. If I needed to create a program in it I would grab a manual and do so with very little problem, however.
Languages I've worked with in the past and current (you will soon realize I'm rather elderly): FORTRAN, COBOL, PL1, Pascal, BASIC (in several different forms), C, C++, VB, VC++, SQL, Java, HTML, ASP, PHP.
I may have missed one or two of the older ones.
I have programmed in UCSD Pascal, but it was a long time ago and I'm not going to claim that I "know" that language today. If I needed to create a program in it I would grab a manual and do so with very little problem, however.
Languages I've worked with in the past and current (you will soon realize I'm rather elderly): FORTRAN, COBOL, PL1, Pascal, BASIC (in several different forms), C, C++, VB, VC++, SQL, Java, HTML, ASP, PHP.
I may have missed one or two of the older ones.
php / html
I'm more of a designer and used to think that life was too short to learn a programming language. Php is very easy to pick up though and after about six months I can do most of what I need to do with it.
All the resources I needed were freelly available on the net. Long live the open source community!
I'm more of a designer and used to think that life was too short to learn a programming language. Php is very easy to pick up though and after about six months I can do most of what I need to do with it.
All the resources I needed were freelly available on the net. Long live the open source community!
