• bayaz
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    That depends – which job am I applying for, and how many questions are you going to ask about what’s on my resume?

    EDIT: I suppose if I’m going to bother posting, I should also actually answer the question. I use mainly Python and C, though I’ve learned and used several others to a greater or lesser degree over the years. Also, I quite like sed if we’re doing scripting languages.

  • Valen
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    In order of learning:

    • Basic
    • Fortran
    • Pascal
    • 6502 Assembler
    • Cobol
    • C
    • Unix shell
    • Quel
    • Awk
    • Troff
    • Perl (my favorite)
    • SQL
    • C++
    • Java
    • PL/SQL
    • Javascript
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      Most of them, and a bunch of others. Just learned something like a programming language today.

      I’ve probably forgotten more programming languages than most kids today could list. Comes with the territory if you’re in the business for over 40 years.

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      Oh boy, PL/SQL!

      in my previous job, we had one product with ~2M lines of code, which had one single PL/SQL procedure that was 10 000 lines long.

  • @[email protected]
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    Proficient: Rust, C++, Python, x86-64 ASM, SSE1 SIMD, C#, C, Javascript / Node.JS
    Can get by: Java / JNI, Kotlin, Bash
    Been a while: Perl, Haskell, Prolog, Labview, Lisp

      • ferret
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        x86 is rarely used in embedded these days

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        Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

  • @[email protected]
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    I find this question very interesting. What does it mean to “know” a programming language. They map to certain paradigms for how to solve problems, in various degrees, with different tradeoffs there for surrounding tooling, libs, and what not.

    A bunch of the most familiar ones are procedural with different sprinkles on top, and they pretty much do the same things when it comes to the “language” side. So, “knowing” one, or another, IMO, has little to do with the syntax, parsing and keywords, and is much more if you have suffered through cryptic compile errors, figured out good debugging tooling, etc.

    Which is to say, if we compare these two list

    • C++, Haskell, Prolog
    • C++, Java, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Objective-C, Dart, etc

    I’d consider the first one much more impressive in terms of diversity in “knowing programming languages”. And, I say that as someone belonging squarely in the latter.

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    proficient at some point in the last 20 years:

    • C
    • ladder logic (for PLCs - dont take this from me)
    • Verilog
    • VHDL
    • C#
    • C++
    • PHP
    • Go (this is my daily driver)

    I would hate to count JavaScript and friends.

  • TomMasz
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    In rough chronological order: Basic, Pascal, 6800 asm, 68000 asm, C, Smalltalk, Python, Java, Javascript. Worked with but wouldn’t claim to “know”: Fortran, COBOL, Prolog, Lisp, C++, Rust, Go.

  • @[email protected]
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    Well?

    • JavaScript (and TypeScript)
    • PHP
    • Bash (is that a programming language?)

    Poorly?

    • Java

    Including markup and querying languages?

    • HTML
    • SQL

    Including languages that definitely aren’t programming languages?

    • Regex
    • CSS
  • @[email protected]
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    Enough that I can code in pretty much anything. I think the typing point was when I coded professionally in my 4th or 5th language some time in the early 90s.

  • @[email protected]
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    Depends on your definition of “know”. Honestly nowadays I don’t feel too scared to try something in any language.

    I’m most proficient in Java and Python. In my free time I nowadays spend most of my time messing around with Haskell, Julia, or Rust. And I have some basic knowledge in a lot of other languages, including C, C++, C#, Kotlin, Groovy, Prolog, JavaScript, SQL, etc, etc.

    But as I said in the beginning, I’m not too scared of learning something new. If someone were to ask me for a job where I’d be using Go or Kotlin or something then I’d be fairly confident that I could adjust quite quickly.

  • @[email protected]
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    No actual programming language, but I do know a few scripting languages…

    Bash, Powershell and PHP, all with various proficiencies.