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Gnik Nosmirc 
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 Topic: Any developer here?Posted: April 14 2025 at 13:08 |
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Hi, I wanted to know if some fellow developers are around.
If so, what is your stack? I'm a gopher.  I started programming when I was 11 years old. My first language was C and I remember installing Ubuntu for the first time at 12 on my old laptop. Great times! Edited by Gnik Nosmirc - April 14 2025 at 13:11 |
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Eclectic/RIO/RPI/Canterbury
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Floydoid
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Posted: April 14 2025 at 13:21 |
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It's many years since I did any programming - I started out at uni in the mid 70's learning Algol 60, Fortran IV, Cobol (I forget which version) and Assembler for the PDP11. Then in the 90's I progressed onto Pascal, Cobol (again), and C+.
All of which were quite challenging, tho the biggest 'programming' challenge I've had to handle was writing advanced macros in Lotus 1-2-3 (remember that?) to solve complex trigonometric problems. Edited by Floydoid - April 14 2025 at 13:25 |
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"Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 14 2025 at 13:30 |
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Yes, been coding since the mid 80s. Mostly Java in my professional work, and a little bit of JavaScript/TypeScript and also Kotlin as of late. The AwesomeProg codebase consists roughly of 50% Kotlin (backend) and 50% TypeScript (frontend).
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Posted: April 14 2025 at 15:19 |
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My first experiences with programming were in Fortran, in 1978. After some years, I started hobbying in BASIC in 1986 or so. I learned COBOL and that was my occupation for some 12 years. Since 2000, my core businesses are Java and SQL.
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Posted: April 14 2025 at 16:20 |
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I first learned BASIC on an Apple IIe in high school around 1986. Then in college I dabbled with Fortran 77, Pascal, C, Rexx, CMS EXEC 2, Scheme, PDP-11 assembler, and COBOL, all on an old VM/CMS mainframe (except Scheme was on a Unix system). I have a BS degree in computer science, but ended up working in a library where it's been mostly database stuff and not much programming (though for a long time I cataloged rare books which was neat). I occasionally wrote scripts in AutoIt or VBA stuff for Excel, but more so XSLT for metadata crosswalks. I'm really rusty now when it comes to formal programming languages since I haven't done anything serious since college (you know, like flow networks or complex data structures).
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Floydoid
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Posted: April 15 2025 at 05:06 |
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^ I think most of us old school programmers learned JSP - Jackson's Structured Programming - at some time.
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Posted: April 15 2025 at 05:55 |
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^I don't think I was aware of JSP at the time, but the books I started with were very likely based on it. My first programming book was Fortran 77 by Larry Nyhoff. Two other books that really got me started were Stephen Garland's Introduction to Computer Science (which is where I learned Pascal) and Thomas Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms. Plus, there's Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming.
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Posted: April 16 2025 at 13:11 |
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I started writing COBOL in 1987, then did a bit of PL/1 but went back to COBOL and then COBOL II. The world of coding has since left me behind, the last coding I did was in VB6.
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Posted: April 16 2025 at 14:06 |
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I guess the way you know you're not old school is that JSP means nothing else than Java Server Pages 
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Posted: April 17 2025 at 11:05 |
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Yep, I did a short course on it back in the day, don't think I ever used it in real life. |
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Posted: April 17 2025 at 13:04 |
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^TBH it was easier to design things in your head and just keep testing as you went along.
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Posted: April 17 2025 at 14:14 |
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I'm not a developer by any means, but I do some R-programming. I have packages on CRAN. When I was much younger, I also coded in Basic, Pascal, C, but that's long ago.
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Posted: April 17 2025 at 15:22 |
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Started with Cobol in 1985 on IBM mainframes (CICS, DL/1, DB2) then moved to sysadmin but back to developing sometimes. ABAP/4, C, shell scripting, PL/SQL on various platforms. In 2004 I moved to UK as project manager, then service delivery manager until I've been fired in 2018. Since then I'm back to develop in PL/SQL and ETL. I should retire in about 1 year when I hope I can start a new career as musician (not really, just dreaming)
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Similar to me, then... |
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Well I went from PL/1 back to COBOL and spent the first couple of weeks putting semi-colons at the end of sentences. Caused havoc with the COBOL compiler! |
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My first exposure to computer languages during the late '70s to early '80s was a short course in FORTRAN at school and again at university (a computing course within a non-computing subject). Then I learned how to program a Commodore 64 using 6502 machine language, after which I taught myself MC68000 Assembly Language on the Commodore Amiga 1000. When I got into PCs, I didn't pursue any programming languages beyond writing batch files until I did a course on Microsoft Office which also included some VBA programming. Some years after that, I started to use my skills and develop additional skills in Microsoft Excel to develop software for my work.
While I never got into any low-level programming of the PC, I have read things about how a PC works, using my previously obtained knowledge about how an Amiga works to make understanding the PC a little easier. |
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