Journal Journal: Languages and Paradigms
I have now dabbled with more forms of computer lanuages and tools then I have visited countries and heard different spoken languages. And I HAVE visited quite a few countries around the world.
Bit of an awkward comparison ofcourse. Other than the word 'language', spoken and computer languages don't have that much in common.
I remember a sad day in my youth when I actually used the following sentence as an opening line to a girl: "I know 35 languages!", and when she looked at me (with what I now recognise as the 'WhatEver' look) I said "I know Dutch, English, German, French and 31 computer languages!". I soon decided that 'lonely nerd' was not my thing.
That was years ago. Now I am happily married, have a good software engineering job and enjoy a great life in California.
But I really did know a lot of programming languages. Some that come to mind: Basic, Pascal, Fortran (never saw Cobol), 68000 Assembly, C, B, Z, Prolog, Lisp, SmallTalk, SASL, ADA, Miranda, Gopher, ML, Haskel,
Then came the real world and C/C++ was the only thing I dealt with for 6 years or so and all was well. Today 90% of my work is done in C++. But lately I have started spending some time on catching up on what else is available. Been dabling with some webdesign and alternative operating systems and now I can add to my list: Java, VB, Perl, PHP, SQL, HTML, C# (and soon F# although I am allready planning to call it F#&$k).
What I am really waiting for is the next major programming paradigm. I know of 4. Logical Programming (Prolog), which is evil and should be made illegal. Functional Programming (Lisp, ML, Gopher, Miranda,
Guess I'll have to catch up on some reading.
- Traa
