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@GeePawHill

- Logo
- GW Basic
- Pascal
- C
- VB 4/5/6
- Classic ASP
++ PHP
++ CSS (I love Front-end dev so this is my stand-in for that)
+ Ruby
+ Python
+ JavaScript

@GeePawHill -Commodore Basic
-c
-QuickBASIC
-Fortran
-PL/1
+IBM Assembler (first assembler of many)
-lisp
+COBOL
+Visual Basic
+ c#
-Java
+PHP (my least favorite)
+Python
+Javascript/Typescript
+Golang

Quite a few more in that path but I can’t remember them all.

@GeePawHill
FORTRAN IV
COBOL
+PL/I
+System/360 assembler
-FORTRAN II (1800)
-1800 assembler
-LISP1.5
+Pascal
+Macro-10/Macro-20 assembler (DEC-20 etc)
MIT PDP-10 TECO
-MACLISP
-C
-Cshell
Scheme
Common Lisp
-Korn shell
-TeX
Perl 5

I still get paid for programming in Macro-20.

@GeePawHill
TRS-80 Basic
+TurboPascal ($$ first paid work)
+Z80 Assembly
-NS32000 Assembly
+C (ohh - the memory leaks)
-Modula2
-Concurrent Euclid
+C (again - Cross platform app Mac/Windows/Unix. We wrote cross platform and one of my colleagues built an early OO system)
+C++ (oh the pain that caused)
+Java
+C# (like Java but with some mistakes fixed)
+Java (returning to Java in 2007 to build an Eclipse Rich Client app felt like stepping back into the past)
….

@GeePawHill okay, let me try…

- Basic
- Pascal
- Perl
- Scheme / Lisp
- C
- C++
- C#
- PHP
- Java
- JavaScript
- Clojure
- Erlang
- Elixir
- Ruby
- Rust
- Python
- Bash (others have mentioned it too 😄)
- Vim ML (does that count? I wrote a refactoring extension for Ruby in it back in the day)
- io

And I’m forgetting some, I think. I wouldn’t know, would I? 😂

Also forgot the +- thingy 🙄

@GeePawHill
BASIC
Pascal
PERL
Cold Fusion
PHP
C++
JavaScript
Python
-TypeScript

Typescript is the only one I haven't put years into. I never got paid for my BASIC or Pascal. Cold Fusion is the only one I'd never go back to 😂

@GeePawHill
+ BASIC
+ Pascal
- Assembly
+ HyperTalk/Supertalk
- 4DL
- Lingo
+ Perl
+ SQL
+ PHP
- Bash
+ JavaScript
+ AppleScript
+ Objective C
+ ActionScript (2 & 3)
+ Ruby
+ Swift
- Python

I hope that’s it, I don’t think I have it in me to learn something new!

@GeePawHill

+Atari basic
-pascal
-c
+perl
-turing
-c++
+java
-vbscript
+javascript
+xslt
-python
-c#
+ruby
+clojure
-scala
-erlang
-elixir
-haskell
-idris
+go
+typescript
-rust
+gleam
+lua

@GeePawHill

For 40 years of programming (30 of them for money) this list is shockingly shallow

BASIC (Commodore and Apple) +

PHP (starting in 1998) +

JavaScript -

Python (lots during time at Mozilla and a little bit now) +

@GeePawHill I try and learn a new language every year even if I keep coming back to Ruby for day to day. Too many to list but I’ll hit the highlights of the ones I feel like have made me a better dev overall.

@GeePawHill
- BASIC
- pascal
- fortran
- (some assembly language but it's been 40 years and I don't remember what we were using — learned a bunch, though)
++ awk
++ C
++ C++
+ perl
++ java
+ C#
+ javascript
+ python

I might be missing a couple.

I still write the occasional python script. The latest was to add an image to the fore-edge (opposite the spine) of a book by printing a slice on the edge of each page of the pdf.

@GeePawHill As I can reconstruct it and not counting 'one course in university':

BASIC
+6502 assembler (I even got paid for some of it)
-Forth (I read a book or two)
C and 8086 assembler

Turning (UofT teaching language)
--Prolog (widened my mind in 1/3rd of a semester)
-Concurrent Euclid (UofT research language)
+C and 68K assembler

more or less at the same time:
+C (including lex and yacc; still do some)
+Unix shell scripting (continues)
(+?)Emacs Lisp

Perl
+Python
-SQL
(+?)Go
Emacs Lisp

@GeePawHill
+BASIC
-Fortran90
-Java
+C
+LaTeX
-C++
+Python

@GeePawHill
+ Perl
- Pascal
- Basic
+ bash/sh/awk/sed
- C
+ C++
+++ Java
- Matlab/Simulink
- JS
- Python
+++ Kotlin (currently paid for and preferred)