I’m a sucker for a good meme. So here is a list of programming languages in the order that I learned them.<\/p>\n
Of those I’ve written production code in all of them apart from Basic (which I learned at school). <\/p>\n
I learnt Python after I got into Linux (during my ill-fated stint as a PhD student). Shell, Perl, C and Tcl were languages I had to come to grips with while I worked at MPC<\/a>. Shell, Perl and C won’t surprise anyone since I’m a sysadmin. Tcl might seem odd until you realise that quite a lot of the Pixar<\/a> tools communicate by throwing Tcl files around. Funnily enough we’ve just implemented Modules<\/a> at work so I’m writing Tcl again. <\/p>\n Learning Java was driven by necessity to write some simple extensions to Globus during my brief sojourn in the Grid community.<\/p>\n Of all these languages the only ones I will use by choice are Python and Shell (in my case usually Bash). Shell for quick scripts that are primarily manipulating other programs and Python for anything more complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a sucker for a good meme. So here is a list of programming languages in the order that I learned them. Basic Python Shell Perl C Tcl Java Of those I’ve written production code in all of them apart from Basic (which I learned at school). I learnt Python after I got into Linux … Continue reading Learning Programming Languages<\/span>