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Maxwell
05-02-05, 05:28 AM
Any coders on these forums?

If so, what languages and compilers do you use?

My primary language is C++, and I use XEmacs/Cygwin. Occasionally I'll use Visual Studio .NET.

I also use Java occasionally, and for assignments I often have to use assembly language.

Lately, I've been very interested in Python.

How about you guys?<o =""></o>

Ian
05-02-05, 09:38 AM
I've played with Python but I"m no coder. Some simple html and CSS is as close as I'm getting to being functional that way.

Python looks like such a good idea though. I belong to MUUG (http://www.muug.mb.ca/) . A member there did an excellent presentation on Python last year. What a simple way to get started coding!
Cheers! & welcome.

chain
05-02-05, 11:30 AM
Yep,


I do tools dev (perfect for an ADDer...small projects that are self driven with lots of kudos following up on success)

VB 6 (ran to Java as soon as I could)
Java
All the DB stuff (SQL)

exeter
05-02-05, 11:40 AM
I can, and occasionally do, program in C. More often, I use Python. I'm starting to get into LISP now, and I also like Ruby. C++ and Java scare me, especially Java. (Having to write a class, with all the boilerplate, just to do "Hello, world," isn't my idea of fun. Java makes the simple things difficult and the hard things nearly impossible, as contrasted with Python, Ruby, and LISP, which make the simple things simple, and the hard things take too much code to matter.)

Emma S
05-02-05, 12:47 PM
html,css,and I know a little(very little) C++,but never got into it enough,I'm familiar with PHP-but again-not a competent coder of it,I should be as I've looked at it for the past couple of years. :(
I used to make my own CSS/html skins for an ex invision free forum of mine,would still be doing it now if I had the time.

Ian
05-02-05, 04:45 PM
Time is a killer!

HighFunctioning
05-02-05, 07:04 PM
I am a programmer on an "informal" basis. I program in VB (mostly 6 and below), C/C++ (Win32 API, MFC, standard libs, GTK, ObjectARX) using VS 6, VS.NET, and GCC, AutoLISP, ZSH specific scripting, Perl, and some x86 assembly (various assemblers, but NASM is my favorite). I had a java course and probably could start programming in that again very quickly as well. I've been focusing my skills around windows lately as I have to use it at work.

bricktop
05-04-05, 02:30 PM
I program in Java, C++, and C#. I script in perl and php. I <3 gentoo!

speedo
05-04-05, 09:24 PM
I am a sysadmin. I do some light applications programming in C. I also do some parallel prgramming on high performance computing machines.

Rodger
05-08-05, 12:58 PM
Have any of you spent much time writing Flash?

ImpetuousFool
05-13-05, 06:02 PM
I'm a software architect/developer. :soapbox: I am multi-lingual, multi-platform, multi-paradigm, high performance, high productivity, general techno-freak and beneficiary of the current administration's economic development program. :foot: Sorry, I got caught out in the cold when the industry went south.

Classic ADD story. You no the old one about greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses. I spent a lifetime turning my sows ear into a silk purse. Then did the old Wiley Cayote treading in air act. :eek:

Yeah, I'm a programmer. :eyebrow:

Ian
05-14-05, 12:04 AM
Your ability to drop me off my chair laughing hasn't been too badly stalled though. Or maybe you're using some "ACME Co." product I'm not familiar with. :D Welcome to the board.
Cheers!

Jackal
05-20-05, 08:52 PM
I'm also an architect/developer and manager of a software development teem at a major university. My group works on multiple platforms including an IBM mainframe, Sun and IBM UNIX boxes, and a little PC work. I know a number of languages but concentrate on the mainframe stuff because my younger developers just want to do web java work.:o I've beed doing it for 23 years. I personally maintain over a million lines of code.

I got into software development from a rather unusual path. My degree is in music (I'm a percussionist) but had problems with my ears and had to abandon that as a career. :( Durring a number of years in retail that didn't suit me at all:eek: , I was taking an upper level management opperations research class an stumbled on a Fortran program that did something called liner programming. You can do liner programming by hand but is very hard to do with real world problems. So I said to myself, this is something I need to learn. That led to a number of classes and my first programming job. Coding just came naturally to me and I loved the challenge. :D I always thought that music theory and creativity were the reasons I was able to solve software problems so easy. But now I'm starting to understand that hyperfocusing and ADD are criticle parts of my success. The mundane parts of my job are torturous and I can procrastinate like crazy when I not challenged, but give me a hard problem particularly a big one and watch me roll.:D One of my biggest problems is that I keep butting into conversations at the wrong place, but I can't seem to be able to stop myself.:(

One of the things I found out in school was that I hated introductory courses. They always bounced between so many topics and I couldn't concentrate on any of them. But by GPA went up and to me the courses got easier the more advanced the class.

My son and daughter have both been diagnosed with ADHD and I know now that father had clasic symptoms. My wife says it can't be from her. So I'm going to get officially tested in a couple of weeks. I'm not sure if I want to take medication or not. I afraid that I might be able to handle mundain tasks and interactions with people easier but that I might also loose my problem solving edge.:eyebrow: I guess I just have to see what the doc thinks.

speedo
05-21-05, 12:54 AM
ANSI C here. I'm a linux weenie.

Me

psychomancer
08-14-05, 10:04 AM
I program in C/C++, a little assembly and some java. Platforms: Windows, various flavors of Unix and OS/2.

Hey! Let's get some neurofeedback equipment and write our own web based interface in our spare time.

ciao!

UnleashTheHound
08-14-05, 10:42 AM
C, Java, php, perl, TCL/TK, Unix shell and some others I can't think of right now

ilangocal
08-15-05, 04:36 AM
i am a programmer. Java, C++ and web development guy

OlDadd
08-15-05, 12:54 PM
.Net Database solutions in SQL Server (yes, we're all Microsoft).

Gil R
08-16-05, 10:51 AM
I program with VB 6, HTML, some PHP, and osme Java

addusin
01-10-06, 02:07 PM
Yes! Education, Experience and no job!

database -- C/C++/Java -- Unix/Motif

Would love to program for Federal Government (don't even mention the contractor alternative...) but they don't seem to want me :(

Uminchu
01-10-06, 02:39 PM
I love programming. I have a side business as a software developer.

My main language is C++ with the WTL for GUI development, and the ATL for COM development. I also use VB/VBA fairly extensively, as well as PHP (both for Web development and client scripting -- no more BAT files!).

I know how to do things in Perl, Java, and a few others, but I don't feel very comfortable with them. Especially now with Perl's regular expressions ported to PHP and C++, there's no looking back.

I have played around with python, and would like to pick it up one of these days. Maybe C# as well, if MS can ever get their libraries stable. I use VB.NET as required to automate Visual Studio.

Back in my Unix days I have also programmed with ANSI C, Awk/Sed, Prolog, and Lisp, but don't have any need for them these days. Sometimes I kind of miss Prolog, though.

peja
02-07-06, 07:54 PM
C++ Java SQL FlashMX. But I'm more of a problemsolver than a really good coder.