Geeks corner - Programming languages you have used

[NotAllThere]

...Miranda...

hmmm... Essex University computer science course, was it?

[sasguru]

In rough chronological order, with those never actually used to generate income in italics:

Basic ( many flavours, from ZX to VB and VBA )
Z80A
6502
M68000
Modula 2
C
Cobol
RPF
SAS
DBase
Exec 2
Rexx
DCL ( VAX/VMS scripting language )
Commander EIS ( PC proprietry thing linked to System W/Essbase, creating EIS applications on PCs, linking to back-end OLAP systems ).
All-in-1 ( All-in-1 was a VAX/VMS office system, highly customisable, since it was developed in its own language, based on DCL forms; for one client I developed a "mission-critical" application on it. )
ABAP
Java
Javascript

It seems like we have a winner. I'd quite like to get in on that **** (toot toot!) thing.

[sasguru]

hmmm... Essex University computer science course, was it?

I deliberately left out one language as it would identify my university.

[oracleslave]

I deliberately left out one language as it would identify my university.

Top secret is it?

[MarillionFan]

Or an indication of low intelligence ...

Or I actually spelt that last one wrong as I new you couldn't resist.

[MarillionFan]

I deliberately left out one language as it would identify my university.

I've never heard of Numpty University. Where is it?

[sasguru]

Or I actually spelt that last one wrong as I new you couldn't resist.

Too late. Your backtracking scheme isn't fooling anyone.

[rootsnall]

It seems like we have a winner. I'd quite like to get in on that **** (toot toot!) thing.

If you ever work it out it is more of a steady chug these days, a bit like the noise Ivor The Engine used to make.

[NotAllThere]

The weird one was Modula 2. It was the language used to teach programming in the first year at university. Then I got a job programming it commercially in the summer between 2nd and 3rd year.

I could have put Miranda down as well, one the same suspicious basis as VectraMan, but that would have enabled people to identify my university...

...oops.

And no - the lambda-calculus doesn't count as a programming language.

[sasguru]

If you ever work it out it is more of a steady chug these days, a bit like the noise Ivor The Engine used to make.

I do know what it is