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  • L Lost User

    How many programming languages do you know? Beginning with C/AL programming language

    I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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    R Giskard Reventlov
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    I know enough to make money.

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

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    • S Soulus83

      1.- Java 2.- C++ 3.- VB.Net 4.- C# 5.- F#(I know it to the level of being able to use it, not that I master the trade ;P ) 6.- Javascript I used to maintain a couple of systems in Fortran, Visual FoxPro, Visual Prolog and did a little bit on Progress but it's been years since that.

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      Soulus83 wrote:

      did a little bit on Progress but it's been years since that.

      Finally, someone else on here mentions it. I spent the first 6 years of my working, programming life doing Progress (or OpenEdge ABL as I think it is now called). I'm having to get back into it again at the moment.

      Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        I'm not sure: I "know" many in the sense that I have used them in anger over a period of six months or more. I "know" many more that I was taught but promptly forgot once the exams were over - COBOL for example - or that I used for one or two projects and never again. In addition, Are you going to class Assembly languages together? I wouldn't: Z80 assembler is wildly different from x86 assembler (both CISC), which is nothing like ARM or PIC (both nominally RISC, but I would argue that for ARM). So, (deep breath) PDP 8, PDP15, Prime 4, IBM 360/195 GEC 4070. Z80 (and the Hitachi supersets), Z8000, 68000, 8086 (and derivatives) PIC, ST6, ARM (Thumb and non-thumb) and a bunch of other minor assemblers. COBOL, FORTRAN (4 and 77), RATFOR, PASCAL, ALGOL, BASIC, C, VB, C++, C#, LISP, APL. Does SQL count? What about Linq? A good number of those I would need to at least skim a book on before I tried to do anything serious with it again. And I probably missed a few out in there while I was going through.

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        I can't remember all the AL's I've used, but nowhere near you. The higher level I can match plus Java, a shed loads of different script engines [PERL, JavaScript, TCL, csh, etc] and multiple DB languages [the Oracle SQL* family included]. Oh HTML? Does that count? I'll add JSP in there as well [as distinct from Java, JavaScript] and I've fluffed about with PHP, Ruby et al.


        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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        • L Lost User

          Lemmings are ace. They live in places most other rodents cannot, have reverse camouflage in that they actually stand out against their terrain and simply face off against any predators, and are such phenomenal breeders that their populations become so huge so quickly there simply isn't enough room for them and they go plummeting off cliffs and into rivers as another one gets popped out in the middle somewhere one gets forced off the edge.

          Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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          Lemmings[^] do not go throwing themselves off cliffs, that was an invention of Disney. These Lemmings[^] are often ill-treated and killed, but it is for the hell of it, not to make a crap film.

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          • S S Houghtelin

            I used lemmings in the metaphorical sense to be sure. But you are absolutely correct about the true nature of lemmings. :thumbsup: Perhaps I should have used Justin Baby er Bieber fans for the example. ;)

            It was broke, so I fixed it.

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            In a previous life I was a Lemming[^] so always stand up for the critters when their name gets used in vain.

            Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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            • L Lost User

              In a previous life I was a Lemming[^] so always stand up for the critters when their name gets used in vain.

              Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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              Go Lemmings! I mean no disrespect, our state college teams are known as the Gophers. But do be careful near the precipice, mind that you don't fall or get pushed off. ;P

              It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                Lemmings[^] do not go throwing themselves off cliffs, that was an invention of Disney. These Lemmings[^] are often ill-treated and killed, but it is for the hell of it, not to make a crap film.

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                Dalek Dave wrote:

                that was an invention of Disney

                They didn't invent it, but they did perpetrate it to the masses. By buying lemmings that had been imported as pets and them slinging them off a cliff in front of camera using a turntable if I remember correctly.

                Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                • L Lost User

                  How many programming languages do you know? Beginning with C/AL programming language

                  I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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                  Luc Pattyn
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                  Depends on your definition of "know". I have used maybe 30, I could name more than 50, half of them would be assembly languages. For 90% of them I don't know everything there is to know (nor do I want to). Using a little search, I expect I could come up with 300+ names. What is the point of such a question? You might want to look here[^]. :)

                  Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

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                  • N Nagy Vilmos

                    Twice as many as I've used and half as many as I've forgotten. WTF kind of question is this Huffle? Who's the daddy because they know the most languages? Sorry, a lot of us old farts learnt to program from an abstract position, learning the theory of what was being done and then discovering the syntactical construction in a given language to achieve the aim. I learnt at least 3 distinct languages in my first year at college; just to put into practice the theory. What is a far better skill is to be able to look at a program written in any language and have a fair grasp of what it is doing.


                    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                    Rage
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                    :thumbsup:

                    Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                    to be able to look at a program written in any language and have a fair grasp of what it is doing

                    Yes, but for PERL. There is an official excuse for PERL.

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                    • L Lost User

                      How many programming languages do you know? Beginning with C/AL programming language

                      I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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                      Michael Bergman
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                      Knowing is relative to understanding the context of epistimological justification which is validated by limits of our perception. I am not a chatbot.

                      m.bergman

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                      • L Lost User

                        Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                        I learnt at least 3 distinct languages in my first year at college

                        I think we did Modula-2 at uni. They said it was a good language to learn with but of no use in the outside world. In my final year we did Java with an almost evangelical lecturer who claimed it was the only language anyone would ever need in th near future. We had another lecturer similarly excited by xml.

                        Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                        Steve Maier
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                        I did Modula-2 at school as well. And they also said it was a good language. Of course at the school now they use Java and C#.

                        Steve Maier

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                        • L Luc Pattyn

                          Depends on your definition of "know". I have used maybe 30, I could name more than 50, half of them would be assembly languages. For 90% of them I don't know everything there is to know (nor do I want to). Using a little search, I expect I could come up with 300+ names. What is the point of such a question? You might want to look here[^]. :)

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                          Great, good list!:thumbsup:

                          I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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                          • L Luc Pattyn

                            Depends on your definition of "know". I have used maybe 30, I could name more than 50, half of them would be assembly languages. For 90% of them I don't know everything there is to know (nor do I want to). Using a little search, I expect I could come up with 300+ names. What is the point of such a question? You might want to look here[^]. :)

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                            Luc Pattyn wrote:

                            You might want to look here[^].

                            From that list on, nothing tremendously new since C# in ... 2010.

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                            • N Nagy Vilmos

                              I can't remember all the AL's I've used, but nowhere near you. The higher level I can match plus Java, a shed loads of different script engines [PERL, JavaScript, TCL, csh, etc] and multiple DB languages [the Oracle SQL* family included]. Oh HTML? Does that count? I'll add JSP in there as well [as distinct from Java, JavaScript] and I've fluffed about with PHP, Ruby et al.


                              Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                              I forgot JS, and HTML - I think they probably should count at least. I looked at PHP but the resemblance to Quick Basic (Damn! There's another one!) put me right off. :laugh:

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                I forgot JS, and HTML - I think they probably should count at least. I looked at PHP but the resemblance to Quick Basic (Damn! There's another one!) put me right off. :laugh:

                                Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                                Nagy Vilmos
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                                QB - been there, lost the hair to prove it. Sheffield BASIC anyone?


                                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                                • L Luc Pattyn

                                  Depends on your definition of "know". I have used maybe 30, I could name more than 50, half of them would be assembly languages. For 90% of them I don't know everything there is to know (nor do I want to). Using a little search, I expect I could come up with 300+ names. What is the point of such a question? You might want to look here[^]. :)

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                                  Nagy Vilmos
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                                  Crap! That's just added in VisiCalc, Smalltalk and CLIPPER to my stable. :-D


                                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    How many programming languages do you know? Beginning with C/AL programming language

                                    I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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                                    Know OF or just KNOW? I know and have used: 01. VB 02. VB.Net 03. C 04. C++ 05. C# 06. COBOL 07. RPG 08. 8086 assembly using Turbo Assembler 09. 6510 assembly hand coded (yeah, it was that easy) 10. Fortran 11. VAX VMS 12. IBM JCL 13. Pascal 14. Delphi 15. Javascript 16. DOS / MS batch language 17. CP/M 18. dBase 19. SQL 20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon) Beyond those, I know, but have not used in actual code, maybe another score including APL, Forth, LISP and LOLCode. Not counting the two I designed but never implemented, TinyLife and Zed. Yeah, I'm an old computer geek.

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                                      Just post 42 then checked everyone elses answers :doh: or great minds think a like.

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                                      Wjousts
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                                      Norm .net wrote:

                                      great minds think a like...

                                      ...But fools rarely differ. (as my Dad used to say)

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                                        Know OF or just KNOW? I know and have used: 01. VB 02. VB.Net 03. C 04. C++ 05. C# 06. COBOL 07. RPG 08. 8086 assembly using Turbo Assembler 09. 6510 assembly hand coded (yeah, it was that easy) 10. Fortran 11. VAX VMS 12. IBM JCL 13. Pascal 14. Delphi 15. Javascript 16. DOS / MS batch language 17. CP/M 18. dBase 19. SQL 20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon) Beyond those, I know, but have not used in actual code, maybe another score including APL, Forth, LISP and LOLCode. Not counting the two I designed but never implemented, TinyLife and Zed. Yeah, I'm an old computer geek.

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                                        You should be sitting at a back office, never to be seen by clients at all. :-\ :~ :-O

                                        I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

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                                          Know OF or just KNOW? I know and have used: 01. VB 02. VB.Net 03. C 04. C++ 05. C# 06. COBOL 07. RPG 08. 8086 assembly using Turbo Assembler 09. 6510 assembly hand coded (yeah, it was that easy) 10. Fortran 11. VAX VMS 12. IBM JCL 13. Pascal 14. Delphi 15. Javascript 16. DOS / MS batch language 17. CP/M 18. dBase 19. SQL 20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon) Beyond those, I know, but have not used in actual code, maybe another score including APL, Forth, LISP and LOLCode. Not counting the two I designed but never implemented, TinyLife and Zed. Yeah, I'm an old computer geek.

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                                          Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                                          20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon)

                                          I'll have to check this out when I get home.

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