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Discussion on: How many programming languages do you know?

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Michel Renaud • Edited

Throughout the years I've used...

BASIC
Turbo Pascal
8086 assembler
SPARC assembler
C
C++
COBOL
Modula-2
Scheme (LISP dialect from MIT)
Smalltalk
VBA
Visual BASIC
C#
Javascript
Java
Typescript
PL/SQL
Transact-SQL
PHP

I could be missing a few.

Of these, I regularly use only C#, Javascript, PHP and Transact-SQL, so at the moment I'd say they're the only ones I "know", as I've forgotten a lot of the others and going back would almost be like learning them again.

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Fulton Browne

What is your favorite?

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Michel Renaud • Edited

Hmmm... Overall, probably C# these days though I have fond memories of Turbo Pascal and 8086 assembler. I never did anything that really worked in assembler, but I had a lot of fun playing with it. I learned a lot about the 8086 (a simple processor by today's standards) just by learning the language, and that helped when dealing with low-level stuff in other languages.

Lately I'm mostly dealing with JavaScript (front-end; the back-end is in C# but I haven't touched it in a few weeks) and it's driving me completely crazy. I'm having a lot of fun. :D