I Like Programming

C++ is my overall favorite and most productive programming language.

I know and have used the following:

Ada
Awk
BASIC
Bourne Shell
C
C++
Clarion
COBOL
CSS
dBASE II
ECMAScript aka JavaScript
Forth
FORTRAN
HTML
IBM 360 Assembly
Intel 8080 Assembly
Intel 8086 Assembly
Intel 80286 Assembly
Intel 80386 Assembly
Java
Motorola 68000 Assembly
MS-DOS Shell
Objective-C
Objective-C++
Pascal
PL/1
PL/M
POSIX Shell
RATFOR
SAS
SQL
Swift
Zilog Z80 Assembly

Admittedly, CSS, HTML, and SQL are not true programming languages, but syntax still matters.

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Scribbles · 36-40, F

If you're fluent in Java, javascript, and c++ or ever used a linux based OS...then you must be alright. hahaha. How's your Python, I hear that's one of the top ten demanded programming languages now?

If you like to play around with that kind of thing, you should get a Raspberry Pi. :)

Look through some of your old books that teach some of those programming languages and check what they are going for too, in case you no longer want to keep it. My dad was a software developer most of his working life and at one time went through all his old books and some of them are worth alot now.

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@Scribbles: Thank you! Since your dad was a programmer, too, you must be alright, as well. :-)

I haven't really programmed in Python, yet. I do almost all of my programming in C++.

Currently, I'm seriously considering developing my own app programming language, because it seems that all the dominant OS platforms require apps to be written in different languages: C++ for Windows, Objective-C, Objective-C++, and Swift for MacOS and IOS, Java for Android, etc. I'd write a translator for my language which outputs C++, Objective-C++, or Java, depending upon the target platform. That way, I wouldn't have to totally rewrite every app to port them to another platform and have them run with maximum efficiency.

I've looked at the Raspberry Pi, but they're not powerful enough (yet) to use to program commercial apps. I have a Mac Mini (Intel i7 @ 3GHz, 16GiB RAM, 1TiB SSD, dual 27" monitors) running both macOS 10.12 and Windows 10 using Parallels Desktop as my primary software development machine.

I've got some old computer programming books. One that I know is worth a lot is a hardback copy of the Multics Operating System, by Elliott I Organick (1972, MIT Press). Multics preceded and inspired the creation of the UNIX operating system, which inspired Minix, which inspired Linux. Operating systems fascinate me, and I've even begun designing one of my own, along with a modern systems programming language, and a virtual cpu for the initial implementation.

Scribbles · 36-40, F

@EnigmaticGeek: Very cool. Good luck!

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@Scribbles: Thank you! :-)