The Programming Languages I Know

-
In the beginning there was DEC BASIC Plus and PASCAL.

From that we learned FORTRAN-77, COBOL, Assembler, APL, PL-1, RPG and JCL from the land of IBM.

DOS Batch files, Unix Shells, sed and awk abound through the land.

Esoterica ensues with Forth and Lisp.

Lo, the introduction to the 6502 microprocessor and Assembler with all its variations by processor 6800, 68000, 8008, 8080 Z-80, 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486 and higher. Hitachi, ARM and PIC round out the bunch.

Then came the light of C, which beget C++.

Windows programming started and tools abounded Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++ and the Sun's own JAVA.

Databases are everywhere D-BASE, Datatrive, SQL in all its glories and incantations( Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, XDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL )

The web grows and with it HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, PHP, perl and ASP.

Thus is my tale of languages totaling 42 at first glance. Maybe more or less depending on the variations you consider.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Still Working on the New Home Page

-
It has been a busy few weeks:   Multiple outages at work A new roof on the house  My other personal projects kicking into high gear So that means I have not gotten a lot done on the new home page. I think I have settled on a layout and theme for it that is related to the current placeholder page I have up. The first thing I will put up is some project summary pages for my Arduino hardware and software projects.
Read more

Chapter 1 – An Interesting Beginning

-
The first thing I notice is that it is dark, very dark. The next thing I notice is a beeping in the dark. It is incessant, not loud, just constantly sounding again and again. There may be four or five different sounds. I try to stir, but I am restrained across my chest. I feel like I am sitting. My knees and hips are bent like I am in a chair, but it does not feel quite right. Then it hits me, I am weightless. That can't be good. It is still dark, even after I open my eyes. My arms seem to be free so I swing my left arm up to my face, but it hits something hard, a helmet; and the visor is turned up to block all light. The control should be right here by the seam. How does that mnemonic go? “LUDD - Light Up, Dark Down” My fingers seem to know this instinctively as I dial the visor down a click or two. Still nothing. Another click down and the room starts to show. It looks like a single ship cockpit. That would fit with the weightlessness and the restraints. I...
Read more

A New Home Page is in the works!

-
 Well, Earthlink has stopped supporting the old Mindspring free web hosting so my old site is gone.  Soon you will be able to find me at my new domain marshallgates.com . In the meantime, I have finished removing all the old, dead, defunct quiz results from my blog history.  There were quizes hosted on geocities , that's how old some of them were. Now I just have to get in the habit of posting something every once in a while.
Read more