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I soon discovered I enjoyed learning languages. I was always
surprised when anyone asked why do I study this or another language. It
seems most people only study a language when they absolutely need to do
it. I did
it because it was interesting, because it was "fun". Some people enjoy
playing music, some people enjoy listening to it, I could never play
anything
seriously and although I enjoy listening to it I enjoy listening to
other
kinds of sounds also: I am fascinated to hear anyone speaking a language I cannot understand and sometimes feel the urge to be able to understand it also. I take specially pleasure in trying to understand "how the language works" and to observe how idiomatic expressions are built (f.i., how in some cultures past is behind and in others past is below). |
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| Spanish |
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| others* (Esperanto, Russian, Cantonese) | |||
| * studied
for about one year
or less and
have since forgotten almost all except for a few words |
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| Computer
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When I learned my first programming language (Basic on a
Teletype
terminal with accoustic coupler on the telephone connection to a
computer so big there were only two of those in the whole of New York
State) I
had no idea I would take the same pleasure in Computer Languages as I
did in human languages. Because the syntax of a computer language is
much
shorter then that of a human language it is also easier to learn many
different
computer languages. This does not mean the same level of proficiency is reached in all languages I learned. Still when I managed to create something for a professional application in a given language I began to feel I knew something about the language, at least I could use it productively. This happened to me with several languages and programming environments; more recently mainly with Java. and I think I never used any other programming languages for so many years without interruption as I did (do!) Java. Adding to that that is the main language I have used in the last years, I could almost say Java has become my "adoptive" native tongue. |
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| Java |
Python/Jython1 | ||
| PL/SQL |
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| Basic |
Dataease/Dease2 |
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| Fortran |
dBASE/Foxpro2 |
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| Pascal |
Visual Basic |
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| C++ |
Smalltalk |
Rebel |
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| others* (Prolog, Lisp) |
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not yet
professionally applied
but since several years constitutes main free-time interest (in the
field of computer languages) |
2
the experience
(in years of
work) in these two is relatively large but it was a long time ago and
they are not as important today (either small market value or small
personal interest...) |
* studied
with much interest,
specially Prolog also for a long time, but never had a chance to use
them professionally |
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