Ok I'll put my cards on the table
male 45y
bg: Pascal (who's laughing?) Ada83, perl, python [ I only chose the
languages that influenced me, so I left C, bash and awk away ;)]
wk: Sys and netadmin Arrggg
location: Paris/France
Hope to see lots of others
Cheers
Robert
--
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.
I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck
Male 44years
Well known Languages: IBM Mainframe Assembler, REXX, Ruby
OK known Languages: C/C++, Java, Javascript
Work: Mainframe DataBase (DB2) Performance Monitor Developer
Location: Katy, Texas, USA.
Todd
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
male 28y
bg: basic, pascal, c, java, python, c++ (symbian), 2 yrs ruby fulltime
(automated testing of c++ network app), now c++ win32
wk: C++ programmer, mobile-related
location: Bratislava/Slovakia
Jano
male 22y
bg: dabbling in QBASIC, then a tiny bit of delphi when i was around
8-10 and finally PHP, discovered my love for ruby and programming
years later, now learning everything that comes along (smalltalk,
lisp/scheme, dylan, asm, bash, neko, haskell), lucky to have skipped
C/C++/Java and all the others 
wk: IT-guy for everything
location: Tokyo/Japan
^ manveru
male 34 seattle wa
bg (chrono): logo, basic, hypercard, forth, pascal, c, object pascal, modula-2, smalltalk (finally fell in love with a language), sh/csh, c++, applescript, prolog, bash, perl, java, python, ruby, objective-c, lisp/scheme, and some others I've since forgotten about scattered throughout.
wk: consultant, mostly ruby/rails
On Jul 17, 2007, at 06:26 , Robert Dober wrote:
Ok I'll put my cards on the table
male 45y
bg: Pascal (who's laughing?) Ada83, perl, python [ I only chose the
languages that influenced me, so I left C, bash and awk away ;)]
wk: Sys and netadmin Arrggg
location: Paris/France
male 21y
bg: BASIC on commodore plus4 when I was 6-8yrs old, QBASIC 10-12yrs old,
later Python,Perl,Java,C,C++,Ruby,C# in order (with dabblings in
others such as Haskell)
wk: freelance developer, mostly ruport/camping/rails in order.
freelance tech writing, too.
location: currently nomadic between (Naugatuck|New Haven), CT and NYC
soon semi-permanent residence in New Haven! (By September)
On 7/17/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok I'll put my cards on the table
male 45y
bg: Pascal (who's laughing?) Ada83, perl, python [ I only chose the
languages that influenced me, so I left C, bash and awk away ;)]
wk: Sys and netadmin Arrggg
location: Paris/France
male, 70, retired programmer (after 46 years of working at it)
location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
background: aerospace applications, communication systems, GUI design and implementation
languages: (ranked by preference)
-1 Basic, C++, AppleScript
0 FORTRAN, PL/I, C, Forth, Java, Object Pascal
+1 Objective C, Smalltalk/V, Common Lisp/CLOS
+2 Logo, Eiffel, Scheme, Ruby
Also lots of assembler, especially early on. And a fair amount of work with Mathematica (+2) but I'm not sure it should be counted as a programming language (although it certainly contains one).
Regards, Morton
On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
Hope to see lots of others
25m, swiss
(Chrono) HyperTalk/-Card (loved that one, but I was about 6 or 7 back
then), C++, C, Perl, PHP, SQL, VB, Eiffel, Prolog, Ruby (my second
love), Java
Freelancer
Regards
Stefan
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
male 47y
bg: fortran,mortran,algol,basic,pascal,dcl,c,c++,lisp,scheme,assembler,perl,awk,sh,R,joy,sql,...
(Yes, I do collect languages, and yes, Ruby is the best I have seen so far...)
wk: Embedded systems - build systems etc.
location: Christchurch New Zealand.
John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand
male, 40y
PhD in mathematics, working on applications of AI
languages I used by preference:
-1 Basic
0 Pascal
+1 Assembler, C
+2 Ruby, C++ (yes, I know I'm weird)
location: just south of Vienna, Austria
Might as well chuck my hat in here...
male 28y
bg (in strict chronological order): Sinclair BASIC (still got my ZX Spectrum+ somewhere); Z80 assembler; Commodore BASIC (still got my C64 somewhere); C; ARM assembler (on an ARM3, then ARM4 - still my favourite instruction set *ever*); Delphi (taught at college, still pine for the GUI designer); Perl, PHP, SQL (to pay my way *through* said college); Java; Python; Ruby; C#; C++
wk: web apps, custom search engines, document classification, 3D modeling plugins, volumetric data presentation
location: London, UK
--
Alex
- 23y
- Germany
- work: EE student, admin of my website http://www.mikrocontroller.net
- started with QBASIC, GFA Basic
- use: C, Assembler, PHP, Ruby, Matlab, VHDL
- tried out: Perl, Lisp, awk, Java, C++
- have made a few attempts with functional languages (Erlang, Ocaml),
but didn't get very far because I didn't really have a use for them
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Okay, here goes . . .
32yo Male, Colorado
Counting only languages in which I could ever do more than "Hello World",
this is my programming linguistic background (in chronological order):
Atari BASIC
QBASIC
C/C++
Logo
DOS batch files (shouldn't really count, but what the heck)
JavaScript
Visual C++ (distinct from C/C++, really) and Visual Basic (ditto for
BASIC)
Perl
PHP
Java, Object Pascal (Delphi), and Objective C, in no particular order
Python and bash, roughly simultaneously
Ruby
Logo again -- UCBLogo to be specific
OCaml
tcsh
C again
Some of those I couldn't do *much* more than "Hello World". In no
particular order, these are languages in which I could and/or can "get
by" if I had/have to:
C
UCBLogo
DOS batch files
Object Pascal (Delphi)
bash
Ruby
tcsh
These are the languages in which I could/can actually claim some real
competence:
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
. . . though I'm getting awfully close with Ruby. Looking at that
(somewhat sad) list of three languages, these are all languages for which
I get paid currently, and have for a while. Of them, Perl is the only
one I really like.
In no particular order, languages I really like from the first list:
UCBLogo
Perl
Objective C
Ruby
OCaml
Those languages that are like a poker in the eye for me:
any BASIC
C++
DOS batch files
Visual $foo
PHP
Java
Python (yes, really)
My work, at present, consists mostly of industry and technology analysis
and consulting, web development, small business disaster recovery, and
writing. I guess things are at this point leaning toward increasing the
writing slice of the pie at the expense of the rest of it, and coding
more and more often on projects I like rather than those that I "need" to
pay the bills (since writing takes up the slack).
The professional writing I do is, of course, technology related -- at the
moment, increasingly oriented toward security-related topics. I wouldn't
be surprised if I ended up finding vulnerabilities for a living, at the
rate I'm going. Ruby strikes me as an excellent tool toward that end.
It's also heaps of fun to use.
Did I cover everything? I might have forgotten a language or two along
the way.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:26:45PM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
Ok I'll put my cards on the table
--
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be
assured through spectacular error."
male 30y
bg: Pascal, x86 Assembly, Perl, Linux shell scripting, JavaScript, Delphi,
Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, PHP, Ruby, Lua, Python, Scheme, Erlang, C.
wk: web programming (mostly Ruby, PHP), Linux sysadmin (making good use of
Ruby here as well).
Cheers,
Alex
Male, 32 years old. Location: Malmö, Scania (sweden).
bg: 6502/6510 assembler (C64), 680x0 assembler (Amiga), C, C++
wk: sysadmin, using Perl, Ruby & PHP at work.
Nice initiative!
male 20y
bg:
- PHP (yuck!)
- JavaScript
- C
- C# (yuck as well!)
- Java (the yuck goes without saying)
- Standard ML (I love it!)
- Assembler (just a little bit)
wk: studying CS at the University of Copenhagen
location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Cheers,
Daniel
So...
Male, 32.
Background : Started with BASIC on a TRS-80 when I was 5, then a long
string of languages, including BASIC variants, Pacal variants,
Clipper, C, (Visual) C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, shells, javascript,
perl, and a passing interest in anything I can get my hands on.
Work : Systems / network administrator (in a multi-platform environment,
mostly BSD/Linux/Windows), software architect and programmer, VB6
first and foremost (ew), then Perl, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and whatever
is at hand for the task.
Hobbies : My small part of the internet, running news servers (hi
list !), and (right now) trying to make smallish games in Ruby and
Ruby on Rails... (And stuff outside computers, of course.)
Location : Liège, Belgium ; will travel for food and alcohol... }:>
Fred
Still 100% males. 
Le 17 juillet à 15:26, Robert Dober a écrit :
Ok I'll put my cards on the table
--
We've all heard the "herding cats" analogy with regard to managing
programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a neighborhood gang of
neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack habits and
opposable thumbs. (Benjy Feen, www.monkeybagel.com)
male 21y
bg: Ruby, Perl, PHP, Java, C/C++, Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk, Asm, web
stuff, sh, sql, a tiny bit of COBOL
wk: SWEN student; Lead Developer, Operis Systems
loc: Auburn, Alabama/USA
- --
Travis Warlick
"Programming in Java is like dealing with your mom --
it's kind, forgiving, and gently chastising.
Programming in C++ is like dealing with a disgruntled
girlfriend -- it's cold, unforgiving, and doesn't tell
you what you've done wrong."
Hi --
Hope to see lots of others
Male, 48yo. Residence: New Jersey, USA.
Professionally trained cellist. BA in German and History of Art
(Yale, 1982). Ph.D. in Cinema Studies (New York University, 1989).
Member of the Dept. of Communication, Seton Hall University,
1992-2005.
Started programming in 1972: BASIC on PDP-8, assembler and dabbling in
misc. languages on PDP-10. Didn't do much from 1974-1990.
1990-present: at least some non-trivial stuff in x86 assembler, C,
(ba)sh, Perl, Elisp, SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSLT, (La)TeX, Ruby. Also bits
of Eiffel, Scheme; glances at Java, C++, and others. *nix (esp.
Linux) admin (for self and others) since 1993.
David
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Robert Dober wrote:
--
* Books:
RAILS ROUTING (new! http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321509242\)
RUBY FOR RAILS (http://www.manning.com/black\)
* Ruby/Rails training
& consulting: Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypal.com)
--
* Books:
RAILS ROUTING (new! http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321509242\)
RUBY FOR RAILS (http://www.manning.com/black\)
* Ruby/Rails training
& consulting: Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypal.com)
m39y
bg: Apple and VIC20 BASIC, 6502 Asm, Pascal, Logo, Forth, Lisp, C, Fortran(*), VAX Asm, 68K Asm, Mathematica, Dylan, C++, SHIFT, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB/Simulink
wk: wireless in vehicles; simulation; Ruby/C/MATLAB
location: SF, CA
(* - it was at SLAC, so maybe it was really MORTRAN)
--
vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407