On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:14:02 -0400, Will The Game <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just wanted to try and gauge where I'm at right now in terms of programming
> prowess by having everyone offer their experience with programming in
> general and CF. What most of you do is pretty amazing to me, so I'd like to
> know where I stand and what I need to do to get more like you guys!
As others have said, the raw number of years is not always a good
measure. I've known career programmers who really haven't improved
since when they were newbies and I've also known some kick-ass
youngsters.
I started programming as a kid at school, writing Algol 60 to solve
math problems around the age of 14 and programming a TI-58 calculator
for all sorts of things. I moved on to BASIC in my late teens and then
at university ('79) I started doing Pascal and, independently, learned
FORTRAN, PL/1, several assembly languages and, later, LISP and Prolog.
I graduated in '83 after writing an APL interpreter (in Pascal) and
could write reasonably complex programs in about a dozen computer
languages. I'd done commercial programming in C, COBOL and several
assembly languages by this point.
I did three years' research into computer language design and
implementation techniques, while learning some other languages "for
fun". I started doing more commercial C and Pascal during this time,
then C++ in early '92 and Java in early '97 and finally ColdFusion in
late 2001.
So I guess I've been programming for fun and profit for around 30
years. Waaahhh! I'm OLD!!! I used to back up my code on punched tape.
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