What languages do you know

pohopo

So what coding languages do you know? This would include db, server side, client side, thick client, markup, and any other form of language used for application development.

Also, which ones do you use the most now?

halojoy

🙂
I know and use only 3, that I can think of:
PHP, HTML, CSS

I use PHP the most. This is why I joined this site.
🙂

MikeSnead

Some way stronger than others, but in no particular order...

PHP, PERL, C, C++, ASP VBScript, SQL (My/MS/Postgre), JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS.

I'm trying to play around with Python and Ruby now as well.

Mostly I use PHP/MySQL (running on Fedora) for personal and fun projects while at work I work 99% of the time with VBScript and an MSSQL server.

leatherback

Is itr brag-list time here?

PhP - /we all know some
CSS - /we all should know some
HTML - /we should know all
Javascript /me knows enough to get basic snippets done

IDL - Interactive datalanguage. Processing of ARRAY-based data. Linked with ENVI (Environment for visualizing images) the best tool for satellite data processing

AML - Arc Macro Language. Part of the ArcInfo spatial data processing package. Is now replaced by ArcGIS. Got the package this week. Think I now need to learn AVENUE 🙁

VBScript - Did some programming when I didn't have / know IDL. Quickly stopped when I tried doing 4-d array calculations.. (You can actually do them easily in PhP!)

C++: Hm.. Got the book, compiler, few snippets. Then found PhP, and started building websites..

GWBASIC - Who didn't start with that?

pohopo

Was interested in knowing all the different languages people knew. There are so many which have died or is used only in a very narrow field. Most of my experience is all geared towards web development.

I also found that once you have a good understanding of two languages the next language you learn is really easy. PHP was one of those that I learned pretty quickly.

Elizabeth

PHP (duh), HTML (duh), CSS (getting there, damn that goldbug), Javascript, Ruby/Rails (still playing around with)... those are mostly what I use nowadays, any prior languages I used long ago(ie, COBOL, AutoLisp, Basic 🙂 ) have since gone by the wayside along with my knowledge of them. Since my brain has reached maximum capacity, if something new comes in, something else has to go out.

halojoy

Originally posted by leatherback
GWBASIC - Who didn't start with that?

I have an old ATARI 1040STFM in my attic.
It has the nice Motorola M68000 16-bit CPU.
If I remember correctly, I used GWBASIC to write programs for this Atari.
In the 80-ies.
🆒

goldbug

Originally posted by Elizabeth
AutoLisp

Yay AutoLisp! 😃 A couple years ago I wrote a version of master mind using AutoLisp... that ran inside AutoCAD. It overlayed the drawing very tiny in the corner, so you looked like you were working on a file, but really trying to guess a color pattern 😃

...Interesting that noone yet has mentioned SQL... how on earth are you feeding your PHP code? 😃 (j/k)

Elizabeth

Originally posted by goldbug
Yay AutoLisp! 😃 A couple years ago I wrote a version of master mind using AutoLisp... that ran inside AutoCAD. It overlayed the drawing very tiny in the corner, so you looked like you were working on a file, but really trying to guess a color pattern 😃

Rock on! Here I thought I could use it to draw beams and stairs and crap like that. How silly of me.

leatherback

Hehe,

Beams and stars and stuff.. That was GWBASIC. Spent a whole christmas morning in the ?? 80-ies working onm entering a christmas carol in GWbasic, accompagnied by exploding fireworks in the background. Hm.. Eat your heart out, Macromedia!

Elizabeth

This is how nerdy I am... my brother and I had an Atari 800 and somehow we got our hands on a voice-recognition program (circa 1981 maybe? I think I was about 10) - we would type in dirty words and crack up at the mechanized voice that came back out at us. Our favorite was "hosebag" - it came out "Hozz - i - bag" and we still call each other that 20 years later.

Wow I just realized I really need to get a life.

planetsim

I didnt start with GWbasic, I however started with QBasic :glare:

Anyway the list as follows and in no particular order
- C/C++
- java
- perl
- php
- javascript (only started up again in past few months so a bit scratchy, but nothing my Bible cant handle 🙂)
- mysql (looking into postgreSQL so anyone know of a book(s) or a decent tutorial(s) besides the manual)
- xml/xslt/html/css
- qbasic (I know it when i re-read school work, oh the joy)

Looking at doing more with java and c/c++ only did little bits but can make some basic console scripts 😃

Weedpacket

See also
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10216991
(Anyone else disturbed that I can remember that far back?)

laserlight

English, Chinese... sorry, wrong list 🙂

Well, I've been working with PHP and C++ for a while now, and learnt SQL along the way. Currently I'm learning Python - ironically in order to more effectively use SCons to build my C++ programs. Oh well 😃

No, I'm sane enough not to code in INTERCAL....

AstroTeg

Taking computer science and several different jobs required me to learn the a collection of language over time.

QBASIC and whatever flavor BASIC was on the Apple //e back in the day, plus Visual BASIC

C/C++ - highlight here was having a couple small DOS apps go out to 7000+ computers nationwide

Assembler (Intel x86 flavor) - learned in computer science. Not very fluent in it but I appreciate those who code with it!

Web related languages:
Perl - not overly fluent in it
PHP
Java - not overly fluent in it but will have to be for fall semester
Python (Zope flavored)
ASP (JScript flavored)
HTML/CSS/JavaScript

At work, I'm actually working on a web app that I whipped up in PHP, then later coded it in Java and today I'm coding it in Python/Zope.

On a side note, anyone here good at picking up computer languages and not so good with people languages? I've tried French, German, and Russian and none of them come as easily as computer languages do for me.

thorpe

i'd like to think i had a bunch of languages under my belt, but i really only got into programming a few years ago. it all started back when i was producing experimental electronic music and wanted to make a website to promote it.

anyway, on to the list...

(x)html/css
asp (vbscript) - my first.
javascript - not fluent but enough to get by.
php - been doing it for about 8 months or so.
bash - only really started toying with this in the last few months since dissing windows for gentoo.

and ive toyed around a little with...

python - i'd love to get more into.
perl - never got past the third chapter of my book.
c - made a simple web server.
ruby - got really lost here. (meant to be the most popular language in japan)

needless to say that since i started getting into web developement (and programming in general) to promote my music i have since stopped making music and spend nearly all my waking hours either programming or reading about it.

im addicted i tell ya.

cretaceous

still a newb here..
anyway php/mysql, html/css and macromedia director's lingo

I'm surprised to see no one listing flash actionscript?

lingo was the first language I learned and I remember feeling my head almost exploding - it was like finding a whole new world existed on the other side - like learning Mongolian I guess

when I tried to transfer that to actionscript it didnt happen, I just don't like flash or actionscript but picking up php was like coming home (ahem, well it was till I found all the other things I didnt know)

Drakla

Bigtrak!

Did anyone get Karel thrown at them in computer science? PickBeeper and all that tripe.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Drakla
PickBeeper and all that tripe.

I remember coming across PICK/BASIC once - close enough to end up writing something in it (fortunately I forget just what).... I was shocked. Shocked, that something like that was still being used in the real^{H^{H^Hcommercial}} world. I guess it was a case of customer lock-in.

Sgarissta

PHP
PL/SQL (the LOVELY language for stored procedures in oracle)
C/C++
Objective-C (Mac OSX stuff, not very good at it, but I can mostly read it)
C#
VB/.NET
I took classes in Java, and Assembly once...
umm....I'm sure there are more languages, but these are the only ones I'm using in anyway these days.