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oraclesmith replied

2 February 2008, 09:59
School
BASIC (PET, Acorn, BBC, RML)
6502 Assembler

College
Pascal
COBOL
Prime Macro Assembler
Prolog, Ada & Modula 2 (not much)

Work
Screenwrite and some more COBOL
PL/SQL, RPT, Unix scripting plus Oracle Developer tools etc.
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threaded replied

2 February 2008, 07:55
Originally posted by AtW View Post

You forgot to sign it - threaded.

Well, he does have Forth in there, but not OOForth, so close, but no cigar.
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AtW replied

1 February 2008, 21:24
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Off the top of my head I can only think of these that I am the worlds leading expert in:

1. ABC
2. ACSL
3. Ada
4. Alef
5. Algol
6. Algol68
7. APL
8. AppleScript
9. AutoIt
10. Autolisp
11. Awk
12. BASIC
13. BCPL
14. Befunge
15. BETA
16. BLISS
17. BLooP
18. C
19. C#
20. C*
21. C++
22. Cecil
23. CFML
24. CHILL
25. Cilk
26. CLAIRE
27. Clean
28. CLU
29. CMS-2
30. COBOL
31. Common Lisp
32. Concurrent Clean
33. Concurrent Pascal
34. CORAL 66
35. CorelScript
36. csh
37. CSP
38. cT
39. Curry
40. Dylan
41. Dynace
42. Eiffel
43. Elisp
44. Erlang
45. Escher
46. Esterel
47. Euphoria
48. FLooP
49. FORMAC
50. Forms/3
51. Forth
52. FORTRAN
53. FP
54. Goedel
55. GPSS
56. Haskell
57. Hope
58. HyperTalk
59. ICI
60. Icon
61. INTERCAL
62. Interlisp
63. J
64. Java
65. JavaScript
66. Jovial
67. Leda
68. LIFE
69. Limbo
70. Lingo
71. Lisp
72. Logo
73. LotusScript
74. Lua
75. Lucid
76. M
77. Magma
78. Mathematica
79. Mawl
80. Mercury
81. Miranda
82. ML
83. Modula 3
84. Modula-2
85. MUMPS
86. NESL
87. NIAL
88. Oberon
89. Objective-C
90. Obliq
91. occam
92. OPS5
93. Orca
94. Oz
95. Pascal
96. PerfectScript
97. Perl
98. PHP
99. Pict
100. Pike
101. Pilot
102. PL/C
103. PL/I
104. Postscript
105. Prolog
106. Python
107. QBasic
108. Quake-C
109. REBOL
110. Reduce
111. Rexx
112. RPG
113. Ruby
114. S
115. Sather
116. Scheme
117. Self
118. SETL
119. sh
120. Simscript
121. SIMULA
122. Sina
123. SISAL
124. SLAM
125. Smalltalk
126. SML
127. SNOBOL
128. SPARCL
129. SPITBOL
130. T
131. Tcl
132. TECO
133. Telescript
134. Terse
135. TeX
136. Theta
137. Turing
138. UFO
139. Until
140. VBScript
141. VHDL
142. Visual Basic
143. WordBasic
144. xlisp
145. Yorick
146. ZPL

You forgot to sign it - threaded.
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NickFitz replied

1 February 2008, 21:07
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain****

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DimPrawn replied

1 February 2008, 21:00
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Could you do us all a favour and ensure that all your future posts are written in Whitespace?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain****
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NickFitz replied

1 February 2008, 20:58
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Off the top of my head I can only think of these that I am the worlds leading expert in:
Visual Basic and one or two others

Could you do us all a favour and ensure that all your future posts are written in Whitespace?
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DimPrawn replied

1 February 2008, 20:55
Off the top of my head I can only think of these that I am the worlds leading expert in:

1. ABC
2. ACSL
3. Ada
4. Alef
5. Algol
6. Algol68
7. APL
8. AppleScript
9. AutoIt
10. Autolisp
11. Awk
12. BASIC
13. BCPL
14. Befunge
15. BETA
16. BLISS
17. BLooP
18. C
19. C#
20. C*
21. C++
22. Cecil
23. CFML
24. CHILL
25. Cilk
26. CLAIRE
27. Clean
28. CLU
29. CMS-2
30. COBOL
31. Common Lisp
32. Concurrent Clean
33. Concurrent Pascal
34. CORAL 66
35. CorelScript
36. csh
37. CSP
38. cT
39. Curry
40. Dylan
41. Dynace
42. Eiffel
43. Elisp
44. Erlang
45. Escher
46. Esterel
47. Euphoria
48. FLooP
49. FORMAC
50. Forms/3
51. Forth
52. FORTRAN
53. FP
54. Goedel
55. GPSS
56. Haskell
57. Hope
58. HyperTalk
59. ICI
60. Icon
61. INTERCAL
62. Interlisp
63. J
64. Java
65. JavaScript
66. Jovial
67. Leda
68. LIFE
69. Limbo
70. Lingo
71. Lisp
72. Logo
73. LotusScript
74. Lua
75. Lucid
76. M
77. Magma
78. Mathematica
79. Mawl
80. Mercury
81. Miranda
82. ML
83. Modula 3
84. Modula-2
85. MUMPS
86. NESL
87. NIAL
88. Oberon
89. Objective-C
90. Obliq
91. occam
92. OPS5
93. Orca
94. Oz
95. Pascal
96. PerfectScript
97. Perl
98. PHP
99. Pict
100. Pike
101. Pilot
102. PL/C
103. PL/I
104. Postscript
105. Prolog
106. Python
107. QBasic
108. Quake-C
109. REBOL
110. Reduce
111. Rexx
112. RPG
113. Ruby
114. S
115. Sather
116. Scheme
117. Self
118. SETL
119. sh
120. Simscript
121. SIMULA
122. Sina
123. SISAL
124. SLAM
125. Smalltalk
126. SML
127. SNOBOL
128. SPARCL
129. SPITBOL
130. T
131. Tcl
132. TECO
133. Telescript
134. Terse
135. TeX
136. Theta
137. Turing
138. UFO
139. Until
140. VBScript
141. VHDL
142. Visual Basic
143. WordBasic
144. xlisp
145. Yorick
146. ZPL
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NickFitz replied

1 February 2008, 20:17
Originally posted by Weltchy View Post

Interestingly enough, what was the first programming language anyone attempted anything in?

DEC BASIC on the school's PDP8/e, 1975
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darmstadt replied

1 February 2008, 15:27
Originally posted by Weltchy View Post

Anyone ever used VMS/CMS on ICL Series 39 mainframes?

Used CMS on VM mainframes though...
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Lucifer Box replied

1 February 2008, 13:08
Originally posted by Fran View Post

Is this still going on!

You are all uber-geeks now.

über-geeks.
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Fran replied

1 February 2008, 13:07
Is this still going on!

You are all uber-geeks now.
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threaded replied

1 February 2008, 12:55
Originally posted by Weltchy View Post

Agreed. I think the art of programming is about concept and first principles. If you have this, you can program in any language, regardless.

bluff sometimes

HTH
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Platypus replied

1 February 2008, 12:33
Originally posted by zeitghost

FORTRAN IV
HP Rocky Mountain Basic
GWBASIC
dBase II

You must be even older than me!
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Weltchy replied

1 February 2008, 12:26
Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

It just shows that the bulk of programming skill is pretty generic.

I learned to program on the ZX80.

Agreed. I think the art of programming is about concept and first principles. If you have this, you can program in any language, regardless.
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NotAllThere replied

1 February 2008, 12:16
Originally posted by Weltchy View Post

I'm quite surprised that no one else has alot more tbh. Its basically what I've accumulated over the last 15 years. I've probably forgotten more about some languages than people know.

Interestingly enough, what was the first programming language anyone attempted anything in?

Mine was hacking into one of the free computer games you got with a vic 20 when I was a kid. Basically, it would pop up words on the screen and you had to guess whether it was a verb, noun or adjective. Educational games, pah!!!

It just shows that the bulk of programming skill is pretty generic.

I learned to program on the ZX80.
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