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Mr_love_monkey · 27-09-2004, 07:46

OK, I program for a living (and a hobby as well)...

Started off many, many years ago on a ZX81, with trusty BASIC (BBC as well, and all it's variations.
Over the years I have used :
SML
MODULA-2
Prolog
C/C++/C#
Occam
TCL/TK
Assembler
PHP
VB
VBA
RTM
SQL (is that a programming language) (MS/Oracle/Ingres,Sybase)
PL/SQL
Oracle Forms

These days I'm mostly Java (J2EE), and all that internet-thingme stuff (javascript/vbscript blah blah)

Basically I started out working for a company that wrote software for insurance companies, using an inhouse language called RTM, which was kind of like Modula-2 but with some really good/odd feature - like being able to nest if statements inside other if statements i.e

IF (IF (IF X = y THEN TUESDAY) THEN 1 ELSE 2) = 2 THEN ... etc - you get the idea... it meant you could write some really interesting looking code - because it was build purely for insurance systems there were some builtin history functions, so it would keep a track of all data file changes, by doing XORs on the details, allowing you to go back and forward through the history...

I then moved into Oracle, as a PL/SQL programmer, and quickly moved into the forms area... after a year I moved companies to somewhere that writes document management software - to convert their SQL Server system into oracle (learning java along the way) - and that's where i have stayed so far...

27-09-2004, 07:46	#3
Mr_love_monkey Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London way Age: 50 Services: Sarcasm Posts: 8,376	Re: Programming languages OK, I program for a living (and a hobby as well)... Started off many, many years ago on a ZX81, with trusty BASIC (BBC as well, and all it's variations. Over the years I have used : SML MODULA-2 Prolog C/C++/C# Occam TCL/TK Assembler PHP VB VBA RTM SQL (is that a programming language) (MS/Oracle/Ingres,Sybase) PL/SQL Oracle Forms These days I'm mostly Java (J2EE), and all that internet-thingme stuff (javascript/vbscript blah blah) Basically I started out working for a company that wrote software for insurance companies, using an inhouse language called RTM, which was kind of like Modula-2 but with some really good/odd feature - like being able to nest if statements inside other if statements i.e IF (IF (IF X = y THEN TUESDAY) THEN 1 ELSE 2) = 2 THEN ... etc - you get the idea... it meant you could write some really interesting looking code - because it was build purely for insurance systems there were some builtin history functions, so it would keep a track of all data file changes, by doing XORs on the details, allowing you to go back and forward through the history... I then moved into Oracle, as a PL/SQL programmer, and quickly moved into the forms area... after a year I moved companies to somewhere that writes document management software - to convert their SQL Server system into oracle (learning java along the way) - and that's where i have stayed so far...