Programming Languages...

[Jonathan]

I'm wondering-- what programming langs
do you guys know? (both internet + comp).

I've mastered HTML, still need lil work on CSS,
nearly effeint in PHP/mySQL, and now trying to learn
either C++, C, or Java...not sure which yet, depends
which has the newest book @ the libery

So, what about you guys? Post away

[-Oz-]

I know php/mySQL, i used to know perl (have long forgotten it), i know pascal, and i know some java.

[Frank Hagan]

I suspect before you were born I was dabbling in QuickBASIC (one of the first compiled BASIC variants), and then converted my shareware programs into C ... file size really was much smaller, but the program execution really didn't seem faster, even on the Heavy Metal system I had then ... a 16mhz 386 with hundreds of dollars of RAM (I think you could cram up to 4mb in dipps or dimms on the thing with a full size MicroChannel expansion card).

Now, its just HTML and CSS. Funny that I'm back to interpreted languages now, huh?

[-Oz-]

That is kinda funny, my dad once programmed in punch cards at purdue (if that could be considered programming).

I made the game of clue in pascal once with some friends, lots of ASCII art to design the levels.

[Buddha]

Well you did say know, with no reference to how well, so I voted all of the above. Only used ASP a couple of times. I could match you list with even a longer list of ones I don't use much or at all anymore.

Z80 - Assembly
6502 - Assembly
29000 - Assembly
80x86 - Assembly
680XX - Assembly
Forth
LISP
SmallTalk
BASIC - several flavors
Pascal
Ada
Ruby
TCL
ALGOL
APL
CABOL - wish I could forget that one!
FORTRAN
Modula
PROLOG
PL/I

Languages come and go but the cycle is always the same. Design, Develop, Maintain.

[Frank Hagan]

Languages come and go but the cycle is always the same. Design, Develop, Maintain.

You forgot "buy expensive compilers, books and routines"

[Buddha]

You forgot "buy expensive compilers, books and routines"

Tax deductions. Oh yeah can't forget those!

[Darren]

PHP/MYSQL is my area of expertise.

[Frank Hagan]

Tax deductions. Oh yeah can't forget those!

Yeah ... tax deductions!

I actually showed a profit this year, but judiciously leaving out some deductions to my hosting / affilliate income that I could have taken (home office deduction, a portion of my ISP fee, etc.) I did include some software and books, but certainly not everything I could earn.

[piku]

if (you know how to read this) {
then you know how to program
}
else {
return(google.com);
}

[Duane]

The old is still here with us.

C O B O L is still very much used today.

Very few "young guys" know COBOL.

That will leave a big hole in the future as we "old guys" retire. The COBOL based systems will not retire with us - who is going to maintain them?
The COBOL based systems will not all be converted/replaced by the newest wiz-bang lanquages. What will we do? What will we do?

This years marks my 40th year of writting code. (That's NOT a typo)

[Jonathan]

This years marks my 40th year of writting code. (That's NOT a typo) :P

That is just........*hesitates* hmmm....never mind
I know a dude in his mid '70s learning C++
Or so he claims he's in his mid '70s

As for me, I ended up getting the Standard C++ Bible;
the Java book was OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOld....

HINTS WHY JAVA BOOK WAS OLD:
- 'Netscape2 & HotJava ALPHA are only Java-supporting Browsers'
- 'The JDK is still in BETA' (its now 1.4.2_04 and called 'SDK')
- So beat up, I thought it'd fall apart just OPENING IT!

[LVZ]

Problem with Poll

There's a problem with the poll, you can only make a single choice selection.

I had to choose "ALL" even though I personally know very little about ASP, although I have made modifications to existing ASP code when necessary.

[Ian]

I don't really consider html/css programming either. Well maybe CSS as a stretch, but HTML no way.

[Daniel]

I'd go with C, Jonathan. Just don't let it shoot you in the foot