{"id":4048,"date":"2018-10-14T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:24:46","slug":"programming-languages-i-have-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/programming-languages-i-have-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming languages I have used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reminiscing, I thought it would be fun to make a list of all programming languages that I&#8217;ve used to make something useful over the years.<\/p>\n<p>(This does not count languages I evaluated or played around with but never produced some useful program with, or languages which aren&#8217;t Turing complete: so no HTML etc)<\/p>\n<p>More or less in chronological sequence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BASIC (Commodore)<\/li>\n<li>BASIC (Sharp MZ-821)<\/li>\n<li>Z-80 Assembly<\/li>\n<li>BASIC (CP\/M)<\/li>\n<li>Turbo Pascal<\/li>\n<li>A bit of x86 (80286 maybe?) assembly<\/li>\n<li>C<\/li>\n<li>C++<\/li>\n<li>Prolog<\/li>\n<li>Hypercard<\/li>\n<li>Xmath<\/li>\n<li>Perl<\/li>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>SQL<\/li>\n<li>sh\/bash<\/li>\n<li>PHP<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Python<\/li>\n<li>OpenSCAD (it&#8217;s a mechanical description language and thus a bit odd, but as far as I can tell, Turing complete)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Depending on how you count (e.g. those BASICs were different enough from each other to be somewhat different languages) that&#8217;s 17-19. Is that high? Low? Probably average I would guess for somebody who has been around a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Some others I played around with but ultimately didn&#8217;t do anything with: FORTH, FORTRAN, Lisp, Modula, Matlab, Eiffel, Self, Ruby, Scala.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of non-Turing complete languages: HTML, CSS, TeX\/LaTeX, XML etc.<\/p>\n<p>The glaring omissions I guess are Haskell, Erlang, Go, Rust, Kotlin, Swift. Well, there is always more to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminiscing, I thought it would be fun to make a list of all programming languages that I&#8217;ve used to make something useful over the years. (This does not count languages I evaluated or played around with but never produced some useful program with, or languages which aren&#8217;t Turing complete: so no HTML etc) More or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical","tag-programming-language","kind-article"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}