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38 programming languages. Tried them all!

John Rush on June 13, 2023

Hey there, code enthusiasts! From classics like Fortran to newcomers like Swift, I've tried them all and can say: what a time waste! Hopefully, ...
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Prasad Saya • Edited

How about PL/I (P-L-One)? I have worked with this one (in addition to Basic, COBOL, Fortran 77) on legacy platforms. In 80's and 90's (pre- Linux era) I have worked with COBOL on various platforms - Prime / PRIMOS, DEC VAX/VMS, Novell LAN, MS DOS, DG AOS/VS, IBM AS 400/OS 400, IBM mainframes, and various flavors of UNIX.

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I have also studied Pascal, C, Python, Haskell, Golang, Java and JavaScript. Some of these I had used (and use) at work.

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Volodyslav

oh man you are crazy)

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John Rush

my University program was crazy.
each semester at least 10 programming languages.

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Volodyslav

Fortunately, I'm self-taught and I chose Python and JavaScript. And that's enough for meπŸ˜†

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Fyodor

Ignorance is bliss

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Jaime LΓ³pez

Pascal brings me lovely memories of the different lab practices I coded in the university 😍

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John Rush

yeaaaah. the sorting algo was my first serious task in programming 20 years ago

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Flavius

Really fun read!

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John Rush

whats your fav?

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Alexander Chichigin

I've tried them all and can say: what a time waste!

A mandatory Alan Perlis quote: goodreads.com/quotes/393595-a-lang...
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John Rush

nice one

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John Rush

follow me here and on twitter: johnrushx to keep me going, thx