On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 17:09, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > So are you arguing that it wasn't useful for you to have learned those 12 > programming languages and to have had those insights as to the range of > possibilities, and that others shouldn't bother?
Well, 2 or 3 really different ones make sense but more IMHO not really. What you don't use on a daily basis makes far less sense IMHO. I would say, the more languages you learn the more you are not satisfied with any of those because in each language something you miss from another one. BTW - there are more than 1000 known programming languages (http://99-bottles-of-beer.net - however, not all mentioned there are really programming languages) - would you really think it is worth knowing them all? On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 17:21, Kfir Shay <[email protected]> wrote: > What 12 programming languages have you learned if I may ask? Not sure, if I get them all, but I will try: Basic (in a lot of variants starting with C-64 Basic, GW-Basic up until Visual Basic, VBA, VB-Script and ASP), Assembler, Turbo Pascal, C and C++, Magic II, COBOL, Clipper, C-Linda, Occam, PVM, PHP, MS Access (if you wish), Wise Installer Scripting language (yes, it has it's own), - and of course Java (now we are at more than 12 already). The most I did in Basic, Turbo Pascal, Magic II and Visual Basic. I did also a very, very little Python and .NET (C#) for evaluation purposes. From theory (syntax) I have looked on a far lot more and played around with some but those I mentioned above I have all used for at least one real project. I also do not count HTML, XML, SQL or even shell scripting and the like as programming language (although some people do - and I can do all these also). And yes, I have written a business application in C-64 Basic (and it was possible to use the joystick and shoot button for selecting the menus :))) ). -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
