OpenEuphoria

Re: Age?

• Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at ATT.NET> Aug 10, 2000
• 711 views

Thanks to all who sent "birthday greetings." Despite my
discomfort with off-topic posting, I do appreciate the kindness
to an old codger.

To answer Isaac's question, at various times I've learned a
couple of assembly languages, several flavors of "BASIC" (a name
which, due to popularity, used to be attached to a variety of
quite different languages), several flavors of Pascal,  C
(almost), a defunct proprietary language known as "D," as well as
DOS/4DOS batch languages, VBA (sorta), and a few other "scripting
languages." I've forgotten all the C and most of the assembly,
and am rusty on most of the rest - due to lack of use. I'm
presently learning Euphoria and Delphi 5 when time permits, and
hope to take another crack at Python later this year. Apparently,
I'll have a little more time to devote to this endeavor, as I
just got laid off.

To address another question - I was a little surprised too to see
that most of the respondents were "under 20 or over 50." I
suspect two possible reasons:

1) We would be the people with more free time to spend on the
list - the folks between 20 and 50 are probably working long
hours at a programming job and not so inclined to spend their
free time on the list. (Besides the age thing, it would appear
that many of us on the list are not employed as programmers.)

2) Most of those between 20 and 50 are probably very involved in
the intricacies of the languages (C/C++, Java, Pearl, etc) and
absurdly complex "environments" that dominate the corporate
world, and have little time for -  or interest in -  pursuing
alternatives.

I agree with those who say that learning to program properly is
more important than which language you learn with - at least in
the beginning - and that writing lots of programs is the best way
to master a language. It's always struck me that programming is
very similar to "physical" activities like sports or carpentry,
or playing the violin, in that learning the activity is largely a
question of  doing it until you "get it right."

Ben





"Isaac D." wrote:

> Happy Birthday. What Programming Languages do you know?