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Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

10 points by probinso 9y ago

This is over ~12 years TIBasic ActionScript Java Ada Scheme C++ C PHP Sage C# Erlang R Python Figaro Scala Perl Julia

tedsanders 9y ago
Using a generous definition of "learn", I learned the following in college and grad school (2006-2016): C Assembly Mathematica JavaScript Python R
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rgacote 9y ago
School: FORTRAN COBOL Snobol Lisp Commercially: Assembler: 8008 (8080/80286), 8080, 6502, 6800(68000), Z80(8000) Basic (various) Pascal C Objective-C C++ SQL Perl Python JavaScript Learning: ELM Elixir
mud_dauber 9y ago
- 8080 assembly - Forth - Ruby (for Rails, of course) - Javascript (barely) - Python - R
jetti 9y ago
QBasic C++ (mainly C with classes. Done in AP Programming in high school) VBA C# Java -- Start Grad school classes Scala C R C++ (better C++ but focused on performance, so again, more C based) --- End grad school Elixir Delphi
ChrisRackauckas 9y ago
I am a mathematician doing research in stochastic differential equations, mixing in biomedical applications and some machine learning. Undergrad course to get me started: Java Web dev day job: Javascript, PHP, Perl (Bonus: MYSQL) HPC REU and subsequent undergrad thesis projects: R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, C (with lots of MPI and parallelism in each) (the REU is great! http://hpcreu.umbc.edu/ http://hpcreu.umbc.edu/) Grad school: Started out with lots of R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Maple, Python, C (venturing into C++ and CUDA), Fortran. Switched depending on what the project needed. I probably have a project in each of those. But soon after I learned Julia. Now? Only Julia. I find I don't need anything else anymore.
mbrock 9y ago
C64 Basic, QBASIC, Visual Basic, HTML, C (pointers were so hard), Perl, Java, and then we got broadband and I installed Slackware and started learning a lot quicker, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, Ruby, SML, O'Caml, Erlang, Haskell, and then I started university in Gothenburg partly because it's a Haskell school, there I also learned some Agda, and after all that I haven't learned much more, except SQL which I learned at my first job, a bit of Clojure at another startup, and serious bash scripting in the past few years, a bit of Rust for a one-off project, and Nix, and Inform 7.
psyc 9y ago
BASIC, C, C++, x86, JavaScript, C#
amirouche 9y ago
This over 15 Years: BASIC PHP Python -- Engineering School C C++ Java -- After JavaScript Scheme (GNU Guile in particular)
billconan 9y ago
1. Logo 2. QBasic 3. C 4. Java 5. C# 6. C++
woolybully 9y ago
APL, Snobol, Fortran, BAL, Pascal, Basic, Cobol, C, C++, Smalltalk, Objective C, Java, Lisp, Dylan, Perl, Tcl, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Python, Erlang,
- probinso 9y ago
  This is fantastic, what pulled you into APL first?
matchmike1313 9y ago
College 1. C++ 2. HTML/CSS After College 3. VBA 4. Ruby 5. SQL 6. Javascript 7. Python 8. R
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amarraja 9y ago
Pascal, VB, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Golang, Elixir. I'd put SQL in there somewhere, but it spans the whole time, and I'm also biased since I believe it's the most important language any app developer should know.
codyswanson4 9y ago
Java, C, python, R, Javascript, PHP
canterburry 9y ago
QBasic, Pascal, C++, VBScript, PHP, Java, Scala, Python I don't believe this ordering has anything to do with the languages themselves but rather rather the projects I needed to get done at the time.
somethingsimple 9y ago
QBASIC Visual Basic Delphi Pascal C I don't remember the order of everything that came afterward :)
philippz 9y ago
"HTML, CSS", PHP, Javascript, Java, Python
codetricity 9y ago
Pascal, Assembly, C, Java, Python, JavaScript. Somewhere in there was Perl, but that seems to have been largely replaced with bash and Python for those types of tasks. Also somewhere in there was the dead-end Dart language, which I liked. I've been using TypeScript, but it does take effort not to revert back to straight JavaScript.
twobyfour 9y ago
BASIC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Assembly, Java, PHP, Objective-C, Python, modern JavaScript
partisan 9y ago
In order, covering 18 years of time, dear god: School: Java, C++, Lisp Self: Perl, HTML, JS, PHP Work: VB.NET, SQL, VB6, C#, LiveCode Self: Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Nim, F#, TypeScript
soulchild37 9y ago
"HTML, CSS" , PHP / SQL, Javascript, Ruby, Objective-C , Swift
kjcharles 9y ago
Pascal, HTML/CSS, PHP, C, Javascript, C#, Java, Python, Swift And for some of these by learn I mean I built something with it without properly learning the language till later.
Gargoyle 9y ago
Counting only languages I've written complete, useful programs in... Color Basic, 6809 assembly, Z80 assembly, C, Pascal, Prolog, C++, Java, php, javascript, Python.
hemling 9y ago
Basic, Assembler, Pascal, C, Oberon, Miranda, Java, JS, Python, Clojure, Scala
segmondy 9y ago
GW-BASIC, QBASIC, C, C++, X86, 6800/6502 asm, z80 asm, MIPS asm, Clisp, Forth, Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Clojure, Erlang, Prolog, Ruby, Swift, Javascript/Typescript, golang I resisted JS for a long time and stayed the heck away out of anything Frontend related.
AlexAmee 9y ago
C, BASH, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Javascript, Java, C#, Scala. Then I stopped learning languages because Java solves 99% of my problems.
synapse0 9y ago
QBasic, Borland Turbo Pascal, C, dBase, Clipper OOP, Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Go
- synapse0 9y ago
  Oops forgot Perl 5, before Java!
TurboHaskal 9y ago
Pascal, C, ASM, Visual Basic, Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, Clojure, K, Forth, Erlang, Shen, Go, Rust

10 points by probinso 9y ago

This is over ~12 years TIBasic ActionScript Java Ada Scheme C++ C PHP Sage C# Erlang R Python Figaro Scala Perl Julia

Using a generous definition of "learn", I learned the following in college and grad school (2006-2016): C Assembly Mathematica JavaScript Python R

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rgacote 9y ago

School: FORTRAN COBOL Snobol Lisp Commercially: Assembler: 8008 (8080/80286), 8080, 6502, 6800(68000), Z80(8000) Basic (various) Pascal C Objective-C C++ SQL Perl Python JavaScript Learning: ELM Elixir

mud_dauber 9y ago

- 8080 assembly - Forth - Ruby (for Rails, of course) - Javascript (barely) - Python - R

jetti 9y ago

QBasic C++ (mainly C with classes. Done in AP Programming in high school) VBA C# Java -- Start Grad school classes Scala C R C++ (better C++ but focused on performance, so again, more C based) --- End grad school Elixir Delphi

ChrisRackauckas 9y ago

I am a mathematician doing research in stochastic differential equations, mixing in biomedical applications and some machine learning. Undergrad course to get me started: Java Web dev day job: Javascript, PHP, Perl (Bonus: MYSQL) HPC REU and subsequent undergrad thesis projects: R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, C (with lots of MPI and parallelism in each) (the REU is great! http://hpcreu.umbc.edu/ http://hpcreu.umbc.edu/) Grad school: Started out with lots of R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Maple, Python, C (venturing into C++ and CUDA), Fortran. Switched depending on what the project needed. I probably have a project in each of those. But soon after I learned Julia. Now? Only Julia. I find I don't need anything else anymore.

mbrock 9y ago

C64 Basic, QBASIC, Visual Basic, HTML, C (pointers were so hard), Perl, Java, and then we got broadband and I installed Slackware and started learning a lot quicker, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, Ruby, SML, O'Caml, Erlang, Haskell, and then I started university in Gothenburg partly because it's a Haskell school, there I also learned some Agda, and after all that I haven't learned much more, except SQL which I learned at my first job, a bit of Clojure at another startup, and serious bash scripting in the past few years, a bit of Rust for a one-off project, and Nix, and Inform 7.

psyc 9y ago

BASIC, C, C++, x86, JavaScript, C#

amirouche 9y ago

This over 15 Years: BASIC PHP Python -- Engineering School C C++ Java -- After JavaScript Scheme (GNU Guile in particular)

billconan 9y ago

1. Logo 2. QBasic 3. C 4. Java 5. C# 6. C++

woolybully 9y ago

APL, Snobol, Fortran, BAL, Pascal, Basic, Cobol, C, C++, Smalltalk, Objective C, Java, Lisp, Dylan, Perl, Tcl, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Python, Erlang,

probinso 9y ago
This is fantastic, what pulled you into APL first?

matchmike1313 9y ago

College 1. C++ 2. HTML/CSS After College 3. VBA 4. Ruby 5. SQL 6. Javascript 7. Python 8. R

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amarraja 9y ago

Pascal, VB, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Golang, Elixir. I'd put SQL in there somewhere, but it spans the whole time, and I'm also biased since I believe it's the most important language any app developer should know.

codyswanson4 9y ago

Java, C, python, R, Javascript, PHP

canterburry 9y ago

QBasic, Pascal, C++, VBScript, PHP, Java, Scala, Python I don't believe this ordering has anything to do with the languages themselves but rather rather the projects I needed to get done at the time.

somethingsimple 9y ago

QBASIC Visual Basic Delphi Pascal C I don't remember the order of everything that came afterward :)

philippz 9y ago

"HTML, CSS", PHP, Javascript, Java, Python

codetricity 9y ago

Pascal, Assembly, C, Java, Python, JavaScript. Somewhere in there was Perl, but that seems to have been largely replaced with bash and Python for those types of tasks. Also somewhere in there was the dead-end Dart language, which I liked. I've been using TypeScript, but it does take effort not to revert back to straight JavaScript.

twobyfour 9y ago

BASIC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Assembly, Java, PHP, Objective-C, Python, modern JavaScript

partisan 9y ago

In order, covering 18 years of time, dear god: School: Java, C++, Lisp Self: Perl, HTML, JS, PHP Work: VB.NET, SQL, VB6, C#, LiveCode Self: Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Nim, F#, TypeScript

soulchild37 9y ago

"HTML, CSS" , PHP / SQL, Javascript, Ruby, Objective-C , Swift

kjcharles 9y ago

Pascal, HTML/CSS, PHP, C, Javascript, C#, Java, Python, Swift And for some of these by learn I mean I built something with it without properly learning the language till later.

Gargoyle 9y ago

Counting only languages I've written complete, useful programs in... Color Basic, 6809 assembly, Z80 assembly, C, Pascal, Prolog, C++, Java, php, javascript, Python.

hemling 9y ago

Basic, Assembler, Pascal, C, Oberon, Miranda, Java, JS, Python, Clojure, Scala

segmondy 9y ago

GW-BASIC, QBASIC, C, C++, X86, 6800/6502 asm, z80 asm, MIPS asm, Clisp, Forth, Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Clojure, Erlang, Prolog, Ruby, Swift, Javascript/Typescript, golang I resisted JS for a long time and stayed the heck away out of anything Frontend related.

AlexAmee 9y ago

C, BASH, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Javascript, Java, C#, Scala. Then I stopped learning languages because Java solves 99% of my problems.

synapse0 9y ago

QBasic, Borland Turbo Pascal, C, dBase, Clipper OOP, Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Go

synapse0 9y ago
Oops forgot Perl 5, before Java!

TurboHaskal 9y ago

Pascal, C, ASM, Visual Basic, Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, Clojure, K, Forth, Erlang, Shen, Go, Rust