@ovid Similar start date and similar list: Forth, 6502, 8080, 6809, 68K, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin.

Some day I would like to return to Forth, my first beloved.

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I also started in the early 1980s, #BASIC, #COBOL, #FORTRAN, #C, VBScript, #python mostly

@ovid I'm a few years behind, I don't think I learned BASIC until 1993 or so. I've written stuff in #BASIC, #C, #csharp, #Java, #php, #golang, #ocaml, #fsharp , #python, #ruby, #javascript, #lua and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting

Plus the usual windows batch, #powershell, bash, applescript

Programming languages are neat

@ovid I wrote a long blog post on this a couple of months ago. It doesn’t look like I mentioned Prolog, but I know I did at least an assignment or two in college using it.

https://trainedmonkey.com/2024/02/16/my_history_with_programming_languages

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I went LOGO, Locomotive BASIC 2, QBasic, Turbo Pascal, x86 Assembly, fKiss, C, TCL, Bash, AWK, Perl, Python, JavsScript, and Lua.

I made some less successful attempts with LISP, Forth, JCL, Prolog, Smalltalk, Java , C#, and Haskell, just to see what they are about, but I never really made anything with those.

I mostly settled on Python as my main language, with C and JavaScript added as needed.

I'm curious about Zig now, but I don't really have a project to try it.

@ovid not sure the age I was or year it was, but around 13yo/1990. BASIC first, then Pascal, C, 8086 ASM, C++, Haskell (I'm at the uni now), bash, TCL, JS (first programming job), Delphi, PHP, Perl (professional at this point), Python (my main one now), Scheme, Ruby (thanks, Chef), Java, golang, and many smaller ones like awk, regexps (think of automatons!) and bazillion template languages (if it has loops and ifs, it's Turing complete¹).

¹ I think, don't quote me on that :)

@ovid i started in the late 70’s. BASIC, x86 assembler, 6800 family assembler, COBOL, RPG 2-ILE RPG, Perl, Python… I mostly write Python these days.

@ovid Basic, 6502 assembler, Forth, QBasic, Pascal (ugh), C, C++, Lisp, IBM S/370 assembler (I think? The OS was Michigan Terminal System), Perl, C#, RakuLang. Trace amounts of Python and Lua.

@ovid I started with BASIC, then did machine language (assembler) for several work terms -- a proprietary machine by AES Data --, then C, 6809, 68000 and then x86 assembler, then C again, a bit of PostScript, some Pascal, some REXX on OS/2, a few things in awk, and finally Perl. I took one course each in FORTRAN and COBOL, but never worked in those languages. My Dad showed me a bit of APL in high school, but it was too advanced for me to comprehend at that point.

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I also started programming probably in 1982.

First language was BASIC, but I forgot it.

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Haven’t used these for years (mostly from uni):
basic, c, fortran, cobol, pascal, DOS-batch
More recently:
java, perl, python, golang, php, javascript, powersmell, xslt
Nobody has mention shell/bash. Doesn’t it count? I still use it every day, sometimes twice or three times a day.
grep awk sed ldapsearch find xargs read while ls chmod curl rsync ssh git etc etc
Update: I keep remembering other languages I’ve used. Z80 assembly, intel x86 assembly, DCL (OpenVMS scripting), tcl (as in expect)

@ovid #Basic, #COBOL, #Fortran, #Algol (+68), #Lisp, whatever the assembly language for the #PDP11 was called, #360Assembler, #Perl, #Python

@ovid I started with c64 basic in the mid 80s. Then pascal, qbasic, cobol, c, x86 assembly, perl, Java, python, ruby, javascript, and a bunch of tinkering in anything else I can get my hands on lately.

@ovid In ~25 years I’ve shipped production code in C, perl, python, clojure, erlang, joxa (a scheme on the beam vm), java, scala, javascript, golang, ruby, rust, and various query languages (SQL, datalog, sparql…), shell scripts, and configuration languages. Probably more perl than anything, though not in the last decade+!

@ovid #Algol60, #Algol68, #Fortran, #Pascal, Plan Assembler (ICL 1900), SFL Assembler (ICL 2900), BBC BASIC, 6502 Assembler, #C, #Bash, #TclTk, #Perl, #SQL

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* some unremembered assembler
* Olivetti P101 Assembler
* TI-59 Basic
* Z80 assembler
* 6809 Assembler
* Basic
* Pascal/Delphi
* C
* #Perl

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Basic, Pascal, C/C++, JavaScript, Tcl/Tk, Bash, Prolog quickly from my head

My favourite, though, is #Perl.

@ovid In somewhat chronological order.
Basic
Pascal
C
Bash
Perl
Ada
C++
Javascript
Python
Rust (in progress)

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I have programmed professionally in C, C++, PHP, Python, PERL, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript/CoffeeScript, Ruby, Erlang, and C#. I have also dabbled in Julia, Go, Rust, Elixir, BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN.

@ovid C#, PowerShell, and VBA are sadly three of my favorites... and I'm a Linux user and try to steer clear of Windows most of the time :-/

On Linux, Qt/C++, C, and Bash are my most frequently used langs.

@ovid #javascript whenever the option presents itself. #java if there is no other option. I would love to code in #cplusplus again. I'd like to pick up #csharp and .NET, as well as kick #python in the tires.

I did look at #perl several times btw. Because I'm nostalgic like that. Have been curious about #mojolicious but maybe I missed the boat on that.

@ovid BASIC on a PDP 8, starting in 1972. Then FORTRAN, COBOL, SNOBOL, b. Forth, C, Algol, Pascal. C++, Java, objective-c, Swift, DCL, PostScript, VAX/VMS assembler. A tiny bit of APL. M68K asm.

Longest uninterrupted stretch probably Objective-c

@ovid A bit different: Fortran, Algol6 (for the RC4000), Pascal, COBOL, Concurrent Pascal, PDP-11 assembler, Univac 1100 assembler, Basic, Algol68, Simula, C, C++, Perl, rust - and probably a lot of others I've forgotten.
Doing concurrent programming in Pascal was... strange/weird but kind of fun.

@ovid #BASIC, 6502 #assembly, #Pascal, #Delphi, #Perl, #Bash, #Javascript, finally #ABAP.

I've looked at #Java and #Python several times but can't get on with Java at all.

My job is 50% ABAP and 50% trying to understand what the client needs and not what they say.

Loved BASIC on my old C64, and have a soft spot for TuboBASIC and TuboPascal. Did a lot of Perl and found it good for what I wanted, but not used it much of late.

@ovid To highly varying levels of competence : Basic, Z80 Assembler, C, VB/VBA, COBOL (w/ Datatrieve ... VMS > MVS 😉 ... though also used CICS and wrote JCLs from scratch 😖, plus some "4GL"s like Mantis), Gambas(!), Processing, Perl, PHP, JS (WSH JS!), Java, Dialplan, Pascal(!), i386 Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Forth, Python, Go, Lua, Z.