{"id":1426,"date":"2013-06-20T01:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-06-08T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T14:32:32","slug":"what-programming-languages-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/06\/what-programming-languages-do-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Programming Languages Do You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

Programming languages are relevant but not critical to software engineers, but recruiters at job fairs love this question. For the record, I list my languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been going to job fairs recently trying to find a job. People claim they are looking for systems engineers, software engineers, and software systems engineers. The first question they ask, however, is:<\/p>\n

What programming languages do you know?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I try to understand. They are recruiters. They are given a list of questions to ask. They really don’t understand the words they are using. I smile. I try not to lecture them on the field of endeavor. There are two little statements that summarize the field:<\/p>\n

Software engineers analyze requirements and design software that will meet requirements.<\/p>\n

Programmers write programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess I am stupid or something, because I don’t understand how recruiters don’t understand this.<\/p>\n

But for the record, here are, to the best of my recollection, the languages I have used to write working software:<\/p>\n

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  1. Z-80 assembly language (in hex a octal)<\/li>\n
  2. 8080 assembly language<\/li>\n
  3. 8086 assembly language<\/li>\n
  4. IBM 360 assembly language<\/li>\n
  5. IBM Job Control Language<\/li>\n
  6. PL\/C<\/li>\n
  7. PL\/I<\/li>\n
  8. Pascal<\/li>\n
  9. LISP<\/li>\n
  10. Prolog<\/li>\n
  11. C<\/li>\n
  12. C++<\/li>\n
  13. C#<\/li>\n
  14. Objective C<\/li>\n
  15. Java<\/li>\n
  16. Perl<\/li>\n
  17. TCL<\/li>\n
  18. MS Basic<\/li>\n
  19. Basic<\/li>\n
  20. FORTRAN – at least half a dozen versions<\/li>\n
  21. Python<\/li>\n
  22. JavaScript<\/li>\n
  23. Ada<\/li>\n
  24. DOS .bat files<\/li>\n
  25. Unix C-Shell<\/li>\n
  26. Bourne Shell<\/li>\n
  27. Bourne Again Shell<\/li>\n
  28. Algol<\/li>\n
  29. APL<\/li>\n
  30. AHPL<\/li>\n
  31. TeX<\/li>\n
  32. LaTeX<\/li>\n
  33. HTML<\/li>\n
  34. DocBook<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope this list will convince recruiters that I understand programming and programming languages and that is there is a language that I need to understand, I will be able to understand it quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Dwayne Phillips Programming languages are relevant but not critical to software engineers, but recruiters at job fairs love this question. For the record, I list my languages. I have been going to job fairs recently trying to find a job. People claim they are looking for systems engineers, software engineers, and software systems engineers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,59],"tags":[145,179],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-requirements","tag-programming","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}