Been coding since 83'ish.. Basic, Z80 Assembler, 6502 Assembler on 8-bit systems (Hobby stuff). C/C++/Pascal/Modula2/Ada/Cobol 74+85/SQL variants on Vax VMS/Un*x/Banyan Vines/PC (Professionally). Then all the fun got sucked out of it with VBA/Visual Basic/C#/Java/Web Dev etc; retired from coding then turned into a management drone which became even more mundane.. almost retired now .. [haha]
General / Off-Topic What Programming Language(s) Do ED Players Use
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Started with BBC Basic, then moved to an Amstrad 6128 basic and assembler and programmed over a couple of summers with a friend "Blasteron Delta!" a 400k, 2D elite trading and fighting game (with moon lander like physics) with procedurally and randomly generated landforms, bases, caves and enemies. Basically a 2D clone of 1984 elite mechanics set on a single planet with underground cave/city system... Ah good days... unfortunately we never published it. By then, the Amiga had been released and 8 bit was all but dead.
I got my first PC (Amstrad PPC640) in high school and learned Borland Pascal and was given an ahem... preloved... copy of DBASE II and then DBASE III Plus for CP/M. This was a game changer for me.
My friend's dad was a freelance writer with a Mac that had Filemaker on it and I remember building him a database to store his jobs on.
At uni it was pascal, fortran, ansi c and c++, thoughtless I dabbled in smalltalk and enjoyed LabVIEW.
My BASIC roots loved Visual Basic and MS Access started getting its game on...
Linux had just become a "thing" and MySQL was a gift that just kept giving...
In 2005 I was given a Mac mini and remembered FileMaker...
I got hooked on LAMP implementations and PHP frameworks, trying cake, zend, code igniter etc...
When Oracle bought out Sun, a few years later I moved to MariaDB...
Currently, and this is how it's likely to stay: VB, LAMP (With Maria) for SMB solutions and Filemaker for CRM.
I used LabVIEW extensively during my postgrad and for my research.
High precision, carbon monoxide sensing, nanoscale silicon membrane based pellistor equivalent.
Definitely the most enjoyable programming experience I have ever had...
Such a wonderful language but a complete bar steward to debug.
I got my first PC (Amstrad PPC640) in high school and learned Borland Pascal and was given an ahem... preloved... copy of DBASE II and then DBASE III Plus for CP/M. This was a game changer for me.
My friend's dad was a freelance writer with a Mac that had Filemaker on it and I remember building him a database to store his jobs on.
At uni it was pascal, fortran, ansi c and c++, thoughtless I dabbled in smalltalk and enjoyed LabVIEW.
My BASIC roots loved Visual Basic and MS Access started getting its game on...
Linux had just become a "thing" and MySQL was a gift that just kept giving...
In 2005 I was given a Mac mini and remembered FileMaker...
I got hooked on LAMP implementations and PHP frameworks, trying cake, zend, code igniter etc...
When Oracle bought out Sun, a few years later I moved to MariaDB...
Currently, and this is how it's likely to stay: VB, LAMP (With Maria) for SMB solutions and Filemaker for CRM.
I used LabVIEW extensively during my postgrad and for my research.
High precision, carbon monoxide sensing, nanoscale silicon membrane based pellistor equivalent.
Definitely the most enjoyable programming experience I have ever had...
Such a wonderful language but a complete bar steward to debug.
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Scratch. Well, my students do.
What I use for my day job:
Toilet brush
Mop & bucket
Henry vacuum cleaner
Mr Muscle
What I use for fun
6502 on the PET
Studied computer programming on a YTS scheme back in 86. Got paid £27.50pw. It mainly went on sweets and Amiga magazines.
Loved programming, still do. Started with BASIC on the zx81, c64, Amiga. Typed endless machine code programs from magazines. Had various jobs as a computer operator but realized early on that an office environment wasn't for me.
The past 2-3 years I've been learning 6502, something that completely mystified me as a teenager. The most frustrating yet rewarding thing I've ever done. Currently working on a demo.
Dabbled in a little COBOL too.
Toilet brush
Mop & bucket
Henry vacuum cleaner
Mr Muscle
What I use for fun
6502 on the PET
Studied computer programming on a YTS scheme back in 86. Got paid £27.50pw. It mainly went on sweets and Amiga magazines.
Loved programming, still do. Started with BASIC on the zx81, c64, Amiga. Typed endless machine code programs from magazines. Had various jobs as a computer operator but realized early on that an office environment wasn't for me.
The past 2-3 years I've been learning 6502, something that completely mystified me as a teenager. The most frustrating yet rewarding thing I've ever done. Currently working on a demo.
Dabbled in a little COBOL too.
Well, since I earn my living in C#, then C#. 
Just for "giggles" I just finished writing a quick and dirty "Star Date Clock" for Elite in C#.
But like many here, I have a large repertoire of languages I've learned over the years, starting with HP 3000 BASIC, to C, REBOL, COBAL, COMAL, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, just to name a few...
Just for "giggles" I just finished writing a quick and dirty "Star Date Clock" for Elite in C#.But like many here, I have a large repertoire of languages I've learned over the years, starting with HP 3000 BASIC, to C, REBOL, COBAL, COMAL, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, just to name a few...
Java EE, Sun certified since 2001. Before that, Delphi and C++ (Visual, Turbo | Borland). Before that, C (MS, Turbo, Aztec). Before that, Assembler on Intel (yuck!), 68k (yo!) and 6502 ofc. Before that, BASIC on ZX 81.
And lots of other stuff, SQL (Oracle, MS, ANSI92), JavaScript, Lisp (got questions?), COBOL, you name it. UML does not count. We do Legal Tech, as the hype calls it today, since 1871.
O7,
[noob]
And lots of other stuff, SQL (Oracle, MS, ANSI92), JavaScript, Lisp (got questions?
), COBOL, you name it. UML does not count. We do Legal Tech, as the hype calls it today, since 1871.O7,
[noob]
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