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Programming languages

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:10 pm
by daven
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.

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 2:40 pm
by Stoker
XML, SQL and HTML is not really programming nor scripting..

some languages are more "scripting languages" than "Programming Languages"..
My list would be very similar except replace Coldfusion with Python, and add some logical control systems stuff to it 8)

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:40 pm
by pootergeist
PHP - there are no other languages.

:D - ok, I know a bit of html too

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 5:46 pm
by volka
whatever comes my way (and has a manual worth called "manual") ;)

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 5:53 pm
by phice
volka wrote:whatever comes my way (and has a manual worth called "manual") ;)
Exactly :D

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:27 pm
by fractalvibes
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.

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 4:09 am
by m3mn0n
Markup languages/Other
HTML
SQL
XML
BBcode! (yay phpBB...lol)

Programming
A lot of PHP
Moderate ASP
Moderate C++
Very little JavaScript
Very little ActionScript


I'm wondering, do you guys learn them online? Through school courses? Or through books?

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:05 pm
by fractalvibes
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.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:59 am
by Tonny
do GW Basic and Turbo Pascal count too? :D

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:01 pm
by Bill H
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.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:25 am
by McGruff
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!