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multiple 25-Mar-1998 computers/internet Atzilut unsorted 61 17 49.2%

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  What computer programming languages do/can you use?

In the comment, feel free to expand on your answers (I used to use. . ., I prefer most, My job requires me to use. . ., I use this dialect. . ., I prefer this development environment. . ). I was a bit liberal in my def. of "programming languages." -- Comments on that are welcome too.

 
Votes Answer
11 I don't do any kind of programming.
36 HTML
17 ANSI C
14 C++
3 SmallTalk
12 Java
8 JavaScript
16 Perl
15 Pascal
24 BASIC
6 VisualBasic Visual Basic for Applications
0 ALGOL
7 FORTRAN
Votes Answer
2 COBOL
9 TeX/LaTeX
0 nroff
10 sed
8 awk
14 Regular Expressions
10 LISP/Scheme
0 Python
3 Ada
1 PL/1
16 A language not listed here (see comment)

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lara
posted 25-Mar-1998 5:36pm  
i write html, but i don't think that counts as programming.
jcdino
posted 25-Mar-1998 7:18pm  
At work I mainly use C, C++, and Perl, along with some application-specific languages. At school I program in whatever they tell me to program in, though if I have a choice (some professors will let you choose between C/C++ and Pascal) I'll choose C++. Perl's a fun language and I'm finding that I like it better the more I use it.
Paco
posted 26-Mar-1998 2:17am  
I use Visual Basic, SQL, HTML, Javascript, C and Assembler in my work. I can use Pascal, C++, Modula-2, BASIC, and I know a bit of Eiffel, Ada, Clipper, COBOL, Oberon, Delphi... BTW: My favourite language is C++, of course.
Jaime
posted 26-Mar-1998 8:56am  
I do some very basic HTML (by hand) for my homepage. I use also some sort of LISP to make custom routines in Cakewalk, a midi music program. I use also some others not listed : at work, mainly Power Builder and some Clipper 5.01, and a lot of POV-Ray script at home (Raytracing).
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 26-Mar-1998 10:17am  
you left out APL! :) Now that I've started programming in Java, I can barely stand programming in C or C++. I find Perl aesthetically distasteful sometimes (and very elegant some other times), and appreciate the fact that I can write a 10 page C program in one page of Perl and (if I try) still have it be comprehensible.
milktree
posted 26-Mar-1998 12:18pm  
PostScript, Hypertalk (that apple hypercard abomination)
Timmi
posted 26-Mar-1998 12:22pm  
I haven't used BASIC since we got rid of the Commodore 64. They made me use FORTRAN77 in college. I've just started checking out the Newton ToolKit and NewtonScript.
treehorn
posted 26-Mar-1998 12:58pm  
A newer version of BASIC called Liberty BASIC that is for working in windows environment. I don't use any of this stuff in my work, but just enjoy learning new stuff and playing around with it. So I've picked up HTML (not really programming), JavaScript and now I'm learning Java.
joe
posted 26-Mar-1998 2:28pm  
SQL and occasionally i have to interface with other human beings. ugh. oh yeah, Tcl. Lots and lots of Tcl.
elijahblue
posted 26-Mar-1998 7:53pm  
I know some BASIC, PASCAL, and HTML. Not expert at any of them.
NYBookworm
posted 28-Mar-1998 3:43pm  
very rudimentary html, just what I need to know to make my homepages
bill Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 30-Mar-1998 6:10pm  
FYI - Survey Central is written in Perl (using CGI and HTML), also - on the main menu page there is now a little piece of Javascript that enables the sort-by menu to auto-load on change.
Pomeranian
posted 30-Mar-1998 7:55pm  
I have made it my life's mission to whack VB & VBA into submission
Atzilut
posted 31-Mar-1998 11:13am  
oops. I forgot emacs LISP too. . .lara: you're right, actually, neither is TeX/LaTeX I guess. o well. Pomeranian: oh really. and I bet you get off pushing that big rock up the hill every day only to have it roll down and then get chained to it while a winged bill gates eats your liver out only to have it grow back. . . or am I conflating here?
Dolemite
posted 31-Mar-1998 2:30pm  
I can program the clock on my VCR using this really complicated language called C++++++.
quark
posted 1-Apr-1998 10:11am  
In highschool I was able to work in Apple ][ machine code. Now I'm lucky if I can folow what somone's doing in C...
jefff
posted 6-Apr-1998 11:21am  
and Objective C, NewtonScript, PalmOS, Lucifer, MUMPS - A lot of the things you listed aren't programming languages.
Resy
posted 6-Apr-1998 4:12pm  
Oh yeah, used to be a COBOL programmer ... wrote that stuff with the 2-digit years ... who knew memory would get so cheap and that 2000 would see that code still in use?! Now, I mostly write scripts (Korn shell, perl).
seth
posted 20-Apr-1998 8:00pm  
I prefer Java and Perl, but I use Smalltalk for work.
fiji
posted 30-Apr-1998 10:16am  
Umm... I wouldn't call HTML a "computer programming language"
Mark
posted 4-May-1998 5:33pm  
As well as a few flavours of assembly, APL, Prolog, EDL ... I'm mainly into Object Oriented design and implementation, these days (the past eight years).
lelle
posted 14-May-1998 10:55am  
I'm not a programmer, but I can do simple calculation and iteration stuff for engineering problems (in BASIC or FORTRAN). I LaTeX (and when Joe Provo introduced me to WWW stuff, I thought HTML was just like LaTeX). I have a web page so I suppose I do HTML. :) I learned Logo in high school, too. :)
daver
posted 14-May-1998 1:31pm  
SQL and FSR, a sed/awk'ish thing.
reality
posted 16-Jun-1998 11:16am  
VERY simple programs in C++ and I had a course in fortran once..
phi
posted 17-Jun-1998 11:12pm  
Verilog. VHDL. AHDL/ABEL. sh, zsh, csh, etc. Oh, and I don't particularly think that HTML, TeX/LaTeX, et al count as 'programming' languages.
dpolicar
posted 11-Aug-1998 4:20pm  
a bunch of these I have used but would need to seriously brush up on before I could even read code in it. And since you asked, I question the inclusion of Tex/LaTeX, HTML, and "Regular Expressions",
gilly
posted 14-Aug-1998 4:39pm  
I don't really consider HTML programming, but I know it. I used to know BASIC - dunno if I remember any. I took Pascal in high school and one semester of C in college, but I don't remember any more than printf and the unending horror of missing semicolons.
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