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<\/a><\/p>\nI’m not really a programmer, but I know a fair number of these.<\/p>\n
I went to a C class in 1988 but never had a reason to use it. I really learned C one summer a few years ago when I had some kids to help me, but I’ve never used it. It’s pretty good at making you think.<\/p>\n
I can read and debug Java but can’t write it.
\nNo reason to use C++.<\/p>\n
I use PHP all the time and I’m at the point where I think I need to start using classes.<\/p>\n
Absolutely no reason to go anywhere near C# or Visual Basic.<\/p>\n
Python and Perl seem like they would be useful, especially for some of the string manipulations I do with sed.
\nI’ve played with Python a bit and it looks like something I’d like if I had the time to learn it. Perl is {$}}@##}}<\/p>\n
Learning JavaScript.
\nSpent an hour today figuring out that <> is not used in JavaScript\u2014it’s !=<\/p>\n
Upgrading to the latest ActionScript.<\/p>\n
Haven’t used SAS for 20 years but liked it a lot when I used it.<\/p>\n
Of course I use SQL all the time\u2014how else do you get to your data?<\/p>\n
Update: Spring 2014
\nI learned Objective-C\u2014so I can convert some programs to the iPad. It\u2019s a really nice language and Apple has lots of API that make it easy to develop apps.<\/p>\n
Not on the list, but I just spent a while learning Bash shell scripting. It comes in handy when maintaining Linux boxen.<\/p>\n
Update: Winter 2016
\nI\u2019ve heard all of the jokes about Perl being an unreadable mess, but I have been updating a site that is built with Perl and I must say that it isn\u2019t bad. The language has some quirks but I have been able to read the code without much trouble and make changes to the web pages without spending a whole lot of time learning a completely new language. I even wrote a couple of new scripts that worked the first time.<\/p>\n
Update: Fall 2016
\nI just read <\/i>The Swift Programming Language<\/i> and have started watching CS193P with Paul Hegarty. The language is completely different from anything I\u2019ve used before. It is a shining example of what a talented group of programmers can do when they do not have to maintain backward compatibility with previous languages (e.g. Objective C and C) or fit into an existing paradigm of how object oriented languages must behave. I really like working with it in the Playground and can\u2019t wait to make real apps with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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