Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#1

Post by probinso » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 7:09 AM UTC

This is over ~12 years

TIBasic

ActionScript

Java

Ada

Scheme

C++

C

PHP

Sage

C#

Erlang

R

Python

Figaro

Scala

Perl

Julia

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#2

Post by tedsanders » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 7:12 AM UTC

Using a generous definition of "learn", I learned the following in college and grad school (2006-2016):

C

Assembly

Mathematica

JavaScript

Python

R

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#3

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 8:07 AM UTC

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#4

Post by rgacote » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 11:45 AM UTC

School: FORTRAN COBOL Snobol Lisp

Commercially: Assembler: 8008 (8080/80286), 8080, 6502, 6800(68000), Z80(8000) Basic (various) Pascal C Objective-C C++ SQL Perl Python JavaScript

Learning: ELM Elixir

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#5

Post by mud_dauber » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 3:47 PM UTC

- 8080 assembly - Forth - Ruby (for Rails, of course) - Javascript (barely) - Python - R

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#6

Post by jetti » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 3:55 PM UTC

QBasic

C++ (mainly C with classes. Done in AP Programming in high school)

VBA

C#

Java

-- Start Grad school classes

Scala

C

R

C++ (better C++ but focused on performance, so again, more C based)

--- End grad school

Elixir

Delphi

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#7

Post by ChrisRackauckas » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

I am a mathematician doing research in stochastic differential equations, mixing in biomedical applications and some machine learning.

Undergrad course to get me started: Java

Web dev day job: Javascript, PHP, Perl (Bonus: MYSQL)

HPC REU and subsequent undergrad thesis projects: R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, C (with lots of MPI and parallelism in each) (the REU is great! http://hpcreu.umbc.edu/)

Grad school: Started out with lots of R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Maple, Python, C (venturing into C++ and CUDA), Fortran. Switched depending on what the project needed. I probably have a project in each of those. But soon after I learned Julia.

Now? Only Julia. I find I don't need anything else anymore.

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#8

Post by mbrock » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

C64 Basic, QBASIC, Visual Basic, HTML, C (pointers were so hard), Perl, Java, and then we got broadband and I installed Slackware and started learning a lot quicker, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, Ruby, SML, O'Caml, Erlang, Haskell, and then I started university in Gothenburg partly because it's a Haskell school, there I also learned some Agda, and after all that I haven't learned much more, except SQL which I learned at my first job, a bit of Clojure at another startup, and serious bash scripting in the past few years, a bit of Rust for a one-off project, and Nix, and Inform 7.

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#9

Post by psyc » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

BASIC, C, C++, x86, JavaScript, C#

Re: Ask HN: In what order did you learn your languages?

#10

Post by amirouche » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 5:21 PM UTC

This over 15 Years:

BASIC

PHP

Python

-- Engineering School

C

C++

Java

-- After

JavaScript

Scheme (GNU Guile in particular)