Category: Geeks r Us
Hello everyone out there, I was just wondering out of every active member here on the zone, are there any programmers among you. if so, please say who you are and what languages I think (at least to me) it would be interesting to find out.
Well, I do programming for a living, more or less, some economics/statistical work too. I started out with C and Perl but now I program mostly in c#.net and Visual basic (both 6.0 and .net) and use xml etc, I've written little scripts in TCL and of course k-shell scripting in Unix and also a job scheduling language called jil. I basically just pick up the language needed for the task I'm dealing with. I used to use Gauss and Mat Lab for statistical analysis but haven't had to directly do that for quite some time. Go vb.net it rocks <grin> 2003 is good 2005 will be much better.
cheers
-B
I am the same way, tought myself qbasic at a young age then learned some C/C++ and then vb. I am now taking classes at Austin community college to become an advanced visual basic coder and will always support the TCL/TK community.
The zone didn't just spring forth from thin air. :) I've worked mostly with php and perl (php for web apps and perl for scraping and data manipulation).
I use what ever I get payed to learn, vb.net the hidious peace of shit language it is, and what ever I need to pass classes, c++.
vb is a fairly good language especially when you look back on its roots and consider how much the language has actually grown despite how much the language structure and libraries have changed, I can still see hints of quickbasic back in there somewhere. I think one of the most interesting languages out there right now is tcl/tk because you get to write full GUIs by just entering code and seeing what you get back from the interpreter.
Well "programmers" hate VB but I love it. I can do VB 6.0 and .NET, of course know HTML....Dabbled in java, javascript, CSS. XML, ASP, SQL and I currently learning PHP with MySQL.
Hopefully I know SOMETHING since I just got my E-Commerce degree.
I am most confident in VB and HTML. I hope to be confident in PHP soon.
I really prefer just content management though and such.
vb is an abortion of a language with things tacked on in a cludgish mannar, although in fairness vb 2005 may be better I haven't played with it.
yeah one of my major goals right now is to create my own automated Content management systems in php or whatever langguages I know and can integrate together. it is kind of hard though getting everything to behave and organize the way you want it to.
VB 2005 does look to be rather interesting I am not to sure about what different will be added exept for more .net capability and such but the one thing I miss from vb6 is the ease of using winsock to do basic communications now it is harder to do this.
Don't create a content management system, modify one of the already existing open source ones.
I like making my own solutions to web sites and software even though other solutions are available, because it gives me the pride that what I am presenting to people is my own creation.
for less important sites however I do use Open Source CMSs
I do XHTML, Perl and CSS for my Web sites; I can use some PHP and Java Script too. I program in VB6; (won't go back to it if I can help it), VB.NET2003 and am now learning VB.NET2005. I also can do some Python; (though my husband is much better in this one). I plan on learning C# next. Oh, and I do know a little C++. Enough to look at code and know what's going on anyways.
Well, I'm not a programmer, but It's so amazing to know that there are that many blind programmers out there. Well, come to think of it, I do know a little html. Enough to build a website.
vg dot net 2005 isn'thalf bad. it's object oriented which is nice, but nothing beats good old c and it's variants.
Long live streight C and the JNI programming interface!