Taking the bull by its horns

Ruby
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male 47y
bg:
fortran,mortran,algol,basic,pascal,dcl,c,c++,lisp,scheme,assembler,perl,awk,sh,R,joy,sql,…
(Yes, I do collect languages, and yes, Ruby is the best I have seen so
far…)
wk: Embedded systems - build systems etc.
location: Christchurch New Zealand.

John C. Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected]
New Zealand

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On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 02:45 +0900, Gregory B. wrote:

soon semi-permanent residence in New Haven! (By September)
m35y
bg: BASIC on TRS-80, assembler on C-64. C, Java, C++, SQL, Ruby.
wk: Rails and whatever else Rich Kilmer tells me to do. :slight_smile:
location: Northern VA

Tom

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I hope there’s some kind of prize for the person who’s been doing this
the longest … it just might be me.

Male, started programming as an undergraduate on ILLIAC I and an IBM 650
in 1961. Later moved on to IBM 7094, IBM 1620, IBM 1130, CDC 1604, CDC
924, Sigma 9, Floating Point Systems array processors, Prime 850, VAX
11/780s, miscellaneous Unix servers and Linux. Languages: mostly
assembler and FORTRAN until 1992, at which point I learned “awk” and
Perl 4. I never did learn enough C to do it professionally and don’t
plan to. :slight_smile: The current languages are Perl 5 and R. At work I’m a
performance engineer.

Now the hobby stuff: I’ve had my own computer since the Altair 680B
days, and I still have every computer I ever owned except the
Commodore 64, which I donated to a charity rummage sale in 1990.
Languages: Perl, Forth, Lisp/Scheme, R, Ruby and soon Erlang.
Applications: quantitative finance, algorithmic composition and
synthesis of music, general scientific and statistical computing, and
analytic performance models.

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Ryan D. wrote:

male 34 seattle wa

bg (chrono): logo, basic, hypercard, forth, pascal, c, object pascal,
modula-2, smalltalk (finally fell in love with a language),

The only language I ever truly fell in love with was Lisp 1.5. It’s been
downhill ever since. :slight_smile:

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Morton G. wrote:

0 FORTRAN, PL/I, C, Forth, Java, Object Pascal

+1 Objective C, Smalltalk/V, Common Lisp/CLOS
+2 Logo, Eiffel, Scheme, Ruby

Also lots of assembler, especially early on. And a fair amount of work
with Mathematica (+2) but I’m not sure it should be counted as a
programming language (although it certainly contains one).

Regards, Morton

Dang … someone beat me out for “doing it the longest”. Not by much,
though.

I suppose I should rate languages too then.

Best: Forth, Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, R, Derive, Axiom, Erlang
Mediocre: Assembler, FORTRAN, Pascal, MATLAB
Worst: C, C++, Java, BASIC, Perl

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John C. wrote:

New Zealand

I do have the MIT Press Lisp 1.5 manual and McCarthy’s two papers on
Lisp. I more or less don’t like Common Lisp – it’s just too bloated. So
I think I’m more a Schemer now.

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

The only language I ever truly fell in love with was Lisp 1.5. It’s been
downhill ever since. :slight_smile:

Well, it was the lisp in lisp interpreter in the original Mcarthy book
that I fell in love with. (No, you can’t have my copy)

However the joy in Joy interpreter trumps even that.
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy/jp-joyjoy.html

Ps: Your taste is Impeccable Sir.

John C. Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected]
New Zealand

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On 7/18/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected] wrote:

I do have the MIT Press Lisp 1.5 manual and McCarthy’s two papers on
Lisp. I more or less don’t like Common Lisp – it’s just too bloated. So
I think I’m more a Schemer now.

Which dialect? I’ve gotten into Chicken lately and it’s very pleasant to
use.

martin

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male, 40y
PhD in mathematics, working on applications of AI
languages I used by preference:
-1 Basic
0 Pascal
+1 Assembler, C
+2 Ruby, C++ (yes, I know I’m weird)
location: just south of Vienna, Austria

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Male 43years
Begin with basic on C64
My first job was IBM-S3 and RPG II, continued to IBM AS400 RPG 400, CL.
Learned about PC started with Turbo Pascal then Clipper, some REXX on
OS/2.
After that Lotus Notes and Java.
Curently working as a system administrator and Ruby rocks for everyday
scripting.
Location:Slovenia, on the sunny side of the Alps.

by
TheR

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Might as well chuck my hat in here…

male 28y
bg (in strict chronological order): Sinclair BASIC (still got my ZX
Spectrum+ somewhere); Z80 assembler; Commodore BASIC (still got my C64
somewhere); C; ARM assembler (on an ARM3, then ARM4 - still my favourite
instruction set ever); Delphi (taught at college, still pine for the
GUI designer); Perl, PHP, SQL (to pay my way through said college);
Java; Python; Ruby; C#; C++
wk: web apps, custom search engines, document classification, 3D
modeling plugins, volumetric data presentation
location: London, UK

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2007/7/18, Robert D. [email protected]:

On 7/17/07, Robert K. [email protected] wrote:

On 17.07.2007 18:48, Robert D. wrote:

On 7/17/07, SonOfLilit [email protected] wrote:

m18y, Technion, Haifa.
My respect I’d probably added 10 years when I was your age;)

And how much did you add in your age? :wink:
I wish I had :wink:

Uh, oh cough cough I’m sorry. :-))

robert

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On 7/17/07, Robert K. [email protected] wrote:

On 17.07.2007 18:48, Robert D. wrote:

On 7/17/07, SonOfLilit [email protected] wrote:

m18y, Technion, Haifa.
My respect I’d probably added 10 years when I was your age;)

And how much did you add in your age? :wink:
I wish I had :wink:

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male 31y
bg: (in more or less chronological order) C-64 BASIC, 6502 assembler,
x86 assembler, C on MS-DOS, off to C on Solaris and GNU/Linux, today
doing lots and lots of Ruby work, OCaml, Lisp, Objective-C, and a
little Java on the side.
work: enterprise applications, web applications, distributed systems
location: Manila, Philippines

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  • 23y
  • Germany
  • work: EE student, admin of my website http://www.mikrocontroller.net
  • started with QBASIC, GFA Basic
  • use: C, Assembler, PHP, Ruby, Matlab, VHDL
  • tried out: Perl, Lisp, awk, Java, C++
  • have made a few attempts with functional languages (Erlang, Ocaml),
    but didn’t get very far because I didn’t really have a use for them
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Sorry for top posting this is only a reminder where to start updating
the data, please ignore.

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A first
résumé:

vg age: 34.3125
Avg sex: 0.00female + 1.00male :frowning:
cpp … 12 70.59%
c … 11 64.71%
java … 9 52.94%
basic … 9 52.94%
python … 7 41.18%
pascal … 6 35.29%
sql … 6 35.29%
perl … 5 29.41%
lisp … 5 29.41%
csq … 4 23.53%
scheme … 4 23.53%
assembler … 3 17.65%
obj_c … 3 17.65%
php … 3 17.65%
bash … 3 17.65%
smalltalk … 3 17.65%
logo … 2 11.76%
awk … 2 11.76%
haskell … 2 11.76%
obj_pascal … 2 11.76%
apple_script … 2 11.76%
forth … 2 11.76%
fortran … 2 11.76%
R … 1 5.88%
joy … 1 5.88%
turing … 1 5.88%
neko … 1 5.88%
ada … 1 5.88%
algol … 1 5.88%
hypercard … 1 5.88%
clos … 1 5.88%
dcl … 1 5.88%
erlang … 1 5.88%
prolog … 1 5.88%
sm … 1 5.88%
csh … 1 5.88%
mortran … 1 5.88%
pl1 … 1 5.88%
ruby … 1 5.88%
pl_sql … 1 5.88%
sh … 1 5.88%
xslt … 1 5.88%
dylan … 1 5.88%
modula_2 … 1 5.88%
eiffel … 1 5.88%

I transformed Delphi into pascal and added awk and java to my list as
I did lots of stuff with it, but well dunno why omitted it.

Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada and I am even
more surprised that Lua missed out at all (I was hoping to see Io and
Self too).
I am sure there is some folks having experience with these :slight_smile:

Cheers
Robert

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Robert D. wrote:

Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada

Oops, I forgot to add Ada to my “tried out” list. I didn’t do anything
real with it, but now I’m using VHDL, which is syntactically very
similar (though used completely differently).

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Robert D. wrote:

A first résumé:

vg age: 34.3125
Avg sex: 0.00female + 1.00male :frowning:
cpp … 12 70.59%
–snip–
ruby … 1 5.88%
–snap–

Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada and I am even
more surprised that Lua missed out at all (I was hoping to see Io and
Self too).

I’m more surprised that Ruby only got one vote. I thought I saw it
mentioned more than once. I guess at my age, I can’t trust my memory
anymore.
:slight_smile:

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Andreas S. wrote the following on 18.07.2007 11:26 :

Robert D. wrote:

Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada

Oops, I forgot to add Ada to my “tried out” list.

Same here. I didn’t code anything in Ada, but I had to learn it to code
some source analysis utilities in C++.
This makes me remember some other langages: I’ve done some assembler
(mainly x86 but 6809 too) work for fun or study, was briefly introduced
to Logo and used Matlab regularly at one point.

Lionel.