Do you know a programming language?

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Originally posted by: notfred
HTML and CSS aare *NOT* programming languages.

I know C, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript, and a little bit of several others.

I guess an easy way to remember what is and isn't a programming language would be something that could...compile, or, be considered a script?
 

tfinch2

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Feb 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: troytime
and while we have the programming crowd together in a thread

MySQL is pronounced MY ESS QUE ELL
I wanna punch people in the face when they say "my sequel"

MySquirrel
 

DaiShan

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Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
Originally posted by: troytime
and while we have the programming crowd together in a thread

MySQL is pronounced MY ESS QUE ELL
I wanna punch people in the face when they say "my sequel"

I concur.


I also agree, however I believe when you are referring to MS's implementation it is actually pronounced sequel server. I *may* be wrong, but I've actually never heard it referred to as anything but.
 

Gunslinger08

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Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
Originally posted by: troytime
and while we have the programming crowd together in a thread

MySQL is pronounced MY ESS QUE ELL
I wanna punch people in the face when they say "my sequel"

I concur.

I don't. It's much easier to say sequel than S. Q. L.
 

Descartes

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I know...

x86 assembly (used mostly MASM or TASM back in the day)
Pascal
PowerBuilder
VB
VB.NET (they're different)
C
C++
Java
C#
Perl
Some Python
Some ADA
Some Ruby
Some Smalltalk

And of course I know the non-programming languages:

HTML
CSS
Javascript (I understand it's a language, but I usually lump it in with everything else web-related)
ASP.NET of course (which isn't a language)
ASP (which also isn't a language)
JSP
etc.

Database-related:

TSQL
PL/SQL
I've worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and a handful of others, but I don't remember them very well

I think that's it. Everything listed above I work with in a production capacity on a regular basis.
 

geecee

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Jan 14, 2003
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Hmm. As someone pointed out, depends on what you consider a programming language. I know some VB, Perl and low end C. Also, used to do some Fortran coding back in the late 80's early 90's. Many consider VB & Perl not to be real programming languages (at least VB6 and lower).
 

Descartes

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Originally posted by: geecee
Hmm. As someone pointed out, depends on what you consider a programming language. I know some VB, Perl and low end C. Also, used to do some Fortran coding back in the late 80's early 90's. Many consider VB & Perl not to be real programming languages (at least VB6 and lower).

Not sure who these many are, but you need to talk to some different people.

 

tfinch2

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Originally posted by: Descartes
I know...

x86 assembly (used mostly MASM or TASM back in the day)
Pascal
PowerBuilder
VB
VB.NET (they're different)
C
C++
Java
C#
A fair amount of Smalltalk
Perl
Some Python
Some ADA
Some Ruby
Some Smalltalk

And of course I know the non-programming languages:

HTML
CSS
Javascript (I understand it's a language, but I usually lump it in with everything else web-related)
ASP.NET of course (which isn't a language)
ASP (which also isn't a language)
JSP
etc.

Database-related:

TSQL
PL/SQL
I've worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and a handful of others, but I don't remember them very well

I think that's it. Everything listed above I work with in a production capacity on a regular basis.

You listed smalltalk twice. ;)
 

Descartes

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Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: tfinch2
Originally posted by: Descartes
I know...

x86 assembly (used mostly MASM or TASM back in the day)
Pascal
PowerBuilder
VB
VB.NET (they're different)
C
C++
Java
C#
A fair amount of Smalltalk
Perl
Some Python
Some ADA
Some Ruby
Some Smalltalk

And of course I know the non-programming languages:

HTML
CSS
Javascript (I understand it's a language, but I usually lump it in with everything else web-related)
ASP.NET of course (which isn't a language)
ASP (which also isn't a language)
JSP
etc.

Database-related:

TSQL
PL/SQL
I've worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and a handful of others, but I don't remember them very well

I think that's it. Everything listed above I work with in a production capacity on a regular basis.

You listed smalltalk twice. ;)

Doh, thanks. :)
 

Rip the Jacker

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Dec 29, 2004
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Originally posted by: Descartes
I know...

x86 assembly (used mostly MASM or TASM back in the day)
Pascal
PowerBuilder
VB
VB.NET (they're different)
C
C++
Java
C#
Perl
Some Python
Some ADA
Some Ruby
Some Smalltalk

And of course I know the non-programming languages:

HTML
CSS
Javascript (I understand it's a language, but I usually lump it in with everything else web-related)
ASP.NET of course (which isn't a language)
ASP (which also isn't a language)
JSP
etc.

Database-related:

TSQL
PL/SQL
I've worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and a handful of others, but I don't remember them very well

I think that's it. Everything listed above I work with in a production capacity on a regular basis.

Wow.. but all that and no PHP ? or did you forget..
 

Descartes

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
Originally posted by: Descartes
I know...

x86 assembly (used mostly MASM or TASM back in the day)
Pascal
PowerBuilder
VB
VB.NET (they're different)
C
C++
Java
C#
Perl
Some Python
Some ADA
Some Ruby
Some Smalltalk

And of course I know the non-programming languages:

HTML
CSS
Javascript (I understand it's a language, but I usually lump it in with everything else web-related)
ASP.NET of course (which isn't a language)
ASP (which also isn't a language)
JSP
etc.

Database-related:

TSQL
PL/SQL
I've worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and a handful of others, but I don't remember them very well

I think that's it. Everything listed above I work with in a production capacity on a regular basis.

Wow.. but all that and no PHP ? or did you forget..

I haven't worked with PHP in about 6 years. None of my clients work with PHP believe it or not. A lot has changed since I last used it, but I could be productive with it rather quickly.

Most of my work in the past several years has focused on .NET (primarily C# and managed C++).
 

geecee

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: geecee
Hmm. As someone pointed out, depends on what you consider a programming language. I know some VB, Perl and low end C. Also, used to do some Fortran coding back in the late 80's early 90's. Many consider VB & Perl not to be real programming languages (at least VB6 and lower).

Not sure who these many are, but you need to talk to some different people.
Maybe "many" was too strong of a word, but programming snobs used to thumb their noses at VB, especially the pre-.net versions. It wasn't a "real" programming language. Some of the hard core programmers I used to work with considered Perl to be more of a scripting language than a programming language, though it has really come a long way.
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

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Sep 15, 2000
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C, C++, assembly (x86, PPC, MIPS, TI DSP), PASCAL, FORTRAN, Perl, PHP, ASP, Java, JS, MATLAB, Verilog, VHDL, LabVIEW.
Ph33r the EEs! :D
 

DivideBYZero

Lifer
May 18, 2001
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Current:

REALbasic
MRL <--proprietry to my company :)
REXX
VB
SQL
Various UNIX shells

In the past:
Pascal
C

 

daniel1113

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Jun 6, 2003
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C
C#
C++
VB
Java
PHP
CGI/Perl
Javascript
ASP.NET (Framework using above mentioned languages)
SQL and TSQL
 

waggy

No Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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lets see.

some c and C++

but used to know Fotran and Cobal really well. actually Cobal made me a LOT of money.

trying to learn HTML, java etc
 

WobbleWobble

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Jun 29, 2001
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C
C++
Java
VB
VB.NET
C#
Ada
Delphi

I know most of the web based languages, but ColdFusion is my speciality
 

mugs

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I know more than I could easily list off the top of my head, but the ones I use most frequently are:
- PL/SQL (Oracle's procedural language)
- Perl
- C#/ASP.NET
- PHP
- KornShell
- SQL (MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle variants) if you're counting that.
 

oog

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c, c++, c#, java, vb, vb.net, perl, php, python, lisp, scheme, prolog, tcl, bourne shell, t-sql, pl/sql
 
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Originally posted by: LoKe
Yes, but it depends on what you consider a programming language.

PHP, HTML, some Javascript. But what about CSS and SQL?

Javascript is a borderline programming language. Everything else you mentioned would not be referred to as actual software. java, C/C++, ADA, etc ... that's programming.

The things you listed aer more along the lines of scripting and presentation. Might as well call Excel macros "programming"