From ivanlan@callware.com Sun Mar 12 19:44:29 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id TAA21668 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:44:24 -0800 Received: from callware.com (mail.callware.com [63.64.27.75]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id TAA07056 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:44:20 -0800 Received: from callware.com ([63.11.186.187]) by callware.com; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: <38CC64EF.A7438635@callware.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:48:00 -0700 From: Ivan Van Laningham X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Query: Classical Programmers References: <001e01bf8c98$292a0300$5d509318@ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All-- "P. T. Rourke" wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how many people on list have any programming > knowledge? I'd be interested in finding out, just as a bit of exploratory > research. Note that by "programming knowledge" I'm including things like > scripting languages as well as full-fledged application languages > (JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, Perl, C, Java, Pascal, FORTRAN, VisualBasic - I > suppose even old Basic - etc.), but not markup languages like HTML, XML, > CSS, SGML, or TeX. Feel free to send me an e-mail offlist. > I'm a professional programmer. At work, I write C++. For my own enjoyment, I write in Python, of which I am so enamored that I just finished writing a book, targetted explicitly at rank beginners. I believe that Python is very nearly the perfect first programming language, and that anyone who reads my book and pays attention can learn how to program. Forgive me if my blatant self-promotion (aka BSP) offends anyone. > > NOTE: This has *nothing* to do with Suda On Line or any other projects I may > have mentioned on the list. It's just a matter of personal interest. > > P. T. Rourke, who knows JavaScript, a little Perl, Basic, and a little COBOL > from a long, long time ago and promised himself he'd never look at a COBOL > program again as long as he lives > ptrourke@mediaone.net I spent a year as a COBOL programmer back in the 60s, before I was drafted. I admit this publicly only now, *after* the Y2K panic has passed. I also know basic, a bit of assembler, not enough Perl to hurt my programming any, PostScript, Java and Javascript, Lisp, Pascal, and several others I've forgotten. -ly y'rs, Ivan;-) ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham Callware Technologies, Inc. http://www.pauahtun.org and http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours .