What programming languages do you know?

[pinar]

I learned Java this summer ,so I'm just a beginner. We learned Perl in Script Languages and C in Introduction to Programming I/II courses . The one I know most within this three is C .

 

And also in Programming Languages course we learned Haskell as an example of functional programming languages ,in my opinion Haskell is the most interesting one ,it's a pity that functional programming languages are not very popular in commercial software development.

[Mercedes Benzene]

I've dabbled in practically all of those, but I'm fairly proficient in C++ which I learned in school this past year.

[Jay-qu]

I just found out I have to learn an assembly language this year aswell.. I think its mims or something.. dont remember.. :)

[Jay-qu]

So does anyone know MIPS?

[Pyrotex]

So does anyone know MIPS?

I guess not. :hihi: Two months and no reply. Bummer, dude.

 

I have recently been turned on to Ruby, a PERL-like language that is object-oriented. Anybody familiar with it?

[Buffy]

Gosh thanks for the bump Pyro. I missed this one while I was on "vacation!"

 

Jay: Do you mean assembly language for the MIPS processor? Are you nuts? Why would you want to know that? MIPS is long dead!

 

And so many languages missing: I have always specialized in languages, here's just a few I know (actually programmed in at least a little bit!) COBOL, Algol, APL, RPG, Lisp, Ada, Logo, Smalltalk, PDP-11-10 machine language (flipping toggles!), VAX assembler, 808x assembler, MUMPS (Craig's fave!), PL/1, as well as scripting/jobcontrol languages for IBM/360, REXX, VMS, DOS, sh, csh, ksh, tcsh, etc. etc. etc. Also some "play" languages such as Whitespace and Cardiac which my mom brought home from a programming class in ancient times.

 

Lex and Yacc,

Buffy

[Pyrotex]

Gosh thanks for the bump Pyro. I missed this one while I was on "vacation!"...

Another question for you code jammers:

 

Six years ago, I started an experimental project based heavily on Java, Perl and a little HTML. The Perl and HTML aged rather well. But the Java went through several upgrades and enhancements: Java 2. Java 2EE. JEE 2.2 ... And each time it did, we suffered quite a bit of rebuild effort. All in all, it was worth the efffort, but what a headache.

 

Question: has Java settled down yet? I haven't had to actually code/recode in it for three years, so I don't know.

[Pyrotex]

ColdFusion is my main scripting language, but I have basic knowledge of PHP and ASP as well. I've built sites with each of those.

Not wishing to incur any costs, I designed and supervised construction of several sites using mySQL, and "dynamic HTML" -- meaning that the HTML codes was created on the fly by PERL scripts. Elegant, secure and very easy to customize, personalize and tweak. Most of the sites thus created were commercial sites displaying an online catalog of goods for sale.

[Buffy]

Question: has Java settled down yet? I haven't had to actually code/recode in it for three years, so I don't know.

Its getting there, and now that Sun has finally really started to let it go open source its probably going to build in popularity (not that it isn't already ragingly popular in the Enterprise, which is why with 2.x its really started to settle down). Perl is ancient (can you say "Unix" with out the "Lin"?), and no one wants to touch it, while PHP, already being open source has stabilized fairly well. PHP is really what independents and small commercial uses, apropos to Java and the Enterprise.

 

No matter what you think of the hickups in Java though, its nothing like transitioning from ASP to .NET (something I'm doing a lot of right now....).

 

Awk one, Perl two,

Buffy

[Turtle]

While I did take a course in Pascal years ago, I only have/use/know Basic. :) I have an antiquated version from Borland called TurboBasic, which is a compiled implementation. About ten years ago the manual burned up in a house fire, and not even Powell's Books in Portland has a replacement.

[Pyrotex]

Yeah, I know this thread is moribund, but what the hell. I'll stick in the first post for '007.

 

The languages I have coded in are as follows, in approximately chronological order, with !, !! and !!! indicating that I used a language only a little, significantly and a lot.

 

FORTRAN 4 !!

COBOL !

(Texas Instruments) TI-960 Assembly !!!

TI-960 Macro Language !!!

TI-980 Assembly !

PDP-11 Assembly !!!

Pascal !

APL !!

FORTRAN 77 !!!

UNIVAC JCL !!!

Perkin Elmer Super-Mini Assembly !!

SMS-Script* !!!

DEC JCL and Star !!

Apple 2+ Basic !!

Paradox !!!

IBM JCL !!

SAS !!!

FORTH ! (a dreadful language)

Ada ! (second only to FORTH)

"UNIX" (awk, grep, scripts, lex, etc.) !!!

C !!

C++ !!

PERL !!!

JAVA !!

SQL (all flavors) !!!

MS Visual Basic for Applications !!!

 

If I could snap my fingers and be at "wizard level" in any languages right now, I would choose JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, PERL, and the "UNIX/LINUX" stuff.

 

*SMS-Script was a "home-brew" language evolved at NASA's Johnson Space Center; it was used to generate the interactive displays for the Controller Instructor Operator Station (CIOS) of the Shuttle Motion-base Simulators (SMS). In 1985, I was selected to replace the old buggy SMS-Script compiler with a new one that supported dynamic database linking. 25,000 lines of FORTRAN 77 -- biggest app I ever wrote.