Computer Languages

Putting together the C vs Pascal page got me reminiscing a bit, and I thought I'd collect all the computer languages I have learned. I am including anything I worked on/with as a hobbiest, in school (college), or as part of a job. I am excluding anything that I might have learned a bit about along the way, but where I have not actually 'produced' something. (SNOBOL, APL, PILOT, Logo, Objective C, Go, x86 assembly, etc.) Also listed is where I first experienced the language. (The 68000 and C first at home, for example, but I had extensive work experience with it—more than any of the other languages.) The lists are approximately in the order in which I learned them.

Not all of these imply any sort of expertise, only that I did produce something in each, however small or badly written. (Contrast the 9900, for which I wrote exactly one subroutine [a CORDIC rotator for a school assignment] with the 34010, for which I wrote a complete low-level graphics library, defined a custom ABI for higher-level C code, and for which I ported the DIAB C compiler. [The magnificent and highly-retargetable DIAB compiler is still out there, now a product of Wind River, though they've almost certainly never heard of that 34010 cross-compiler I did. Its author did offer me a job once, stating that I was the only person in the world who knew how the compiler worked who did not already work there, but I didn't want to relocate to California—the only option at the time.])

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