Programming Language Migration Path
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Programming Language Migration Path :
While I was setting up some individual foundation data for a potential customer, I was looking into all the programming dialects that I have had involvement with. I list dialects that I'm most experienced with on my resume. In any case, it jumped out at me that if I somehow managed to list every one of the dialects that I've worked with, at that point the customer would progress toward becoming overpowered with the resume and simply discount me as either an aggregate piece head or looney toons. In any case, as I considered all these diverse situations I understood how much fun I've had being included with the product improvement industry, and that a great deal of that fun needs to do with the learning procedure. I think this is the thing that makes a decent software engineer. Not only the capacity to compose code, or concoct an extremely innovative application, however the capacity to learn. Lets let it out! In the event that a developer doesn't have great learning abilities, at that point the software engineer will have a short profession.
As an activity, I will drill down my Programming Language Migration Path. I would be intrigued to get notification from different software engineers what their PLMP is too. Here goes:
* Commodore Vic-20 Basic
* Commodore Vic-20 6502 Assembler
* Commodore 64 6510 Assembler (Lots of dusk 'til dawn affairs with this one!)
* IBM BASIC
* IBM Assembler (My abhor association with fragment tending to.)
* dBASE II (Wow! Organized programming.)
* GWBasic
* Turbo Pascal (Thank you Mr. Kahn! Best $49 I at any point spent!)
* Turbo C
* dBASE III+ (Cool, my dBASE II report generator now just takes 2 hours to keep running rather than 7.)
* Clipper/Foxbase
* dBASE IV
* dBASE SQL
* Microsoft C (First under DOS, at that point under Windows 3.1)
* SuperBase (First under Amiga DOS, at that point for MS Windows)
* SQL Windows (Whatever happened to this? Gupta?)
* Visual Basic 2.0
* Delphi
* Visual Basic 3.0
* Access Basic/Word Basic (Microsoft)
* Newton Script (My first "rich" dialect)
* Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0
* HTML
* FormLogic (for Apple Newton)
* Codewarrior C for Palm OS
* Visual Basic 6.0
* NS BASIC for Palm OS and Windows CE
* FileMaker 5
* Satellite Forms
* Visual C++
* REAL Basic for Mac 9.x and OSX
* Java
* Codewarrior C++ for Palm OS
* Appforge for Palm OS and Pocket PC
* C#
* FileMaker Pro 7.0
Whew! Not exclusively is this a decent exercise to ponder every one of the dialects that I've worked with, yet it is a decent case of how the dialects and the innovation has advanced amid the previous 25 years. I'm certain that I'll be adding substantially more to this PLMP sooner rather than later also. Furthermore, as with most software engineers I know, there is a lot more that I might want to learn however simply don't have sufficient energy.
Another great exercise is to bring this up as a point of exchange with a gathering of software engineers following a decent taxing day at any specialized public exhibition. For instance, a long while prior, following a prolonged day at the OS/2 Developers Conference in Seattle (Yea, dating myself here.), I raised the point of 6502 Assembly Language programming. This was amid supper at around 7pm. The subsequent discussion relocated to the lodging entryway where it proceeded until around 2am toward the beginning of the day. (Ok, the great ol' days.) ;)
