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While preparing some personal background information for a potential client, I was reviewing all the programming languages ​​that I acquired. Include the most experienced languages ​​on my CV. However, it happened to me that if I were to include all the languages ​​in which I worked, the client would become overwhelmed in the CV and only write to me either as a bit head or an animated header. But when I thought about all these different environments, I realized how much fun I've been involved in in the software development industry, and that much of that fun has to do with the learning process. I think this is what makes a good programmer. Not only the ability to write code, or come up with a very innovative application, but the ability to learn. Let's admit it! If the programmer does not have good learning skills, then the programmer will have a very short career.

As an exercise, I will list my programming language migration path. I'd be interested to hear from other programmers what their PLMP is, too. Here it goes:

* Dean Vic-20 Basic

* Dean Vic-20 6502 complex

* Dean 64 6510 complex (lots of all nighters with this one!)

* IBM BASIC

IBM Assembler (My hate relationship with sector addressing.)

* dBASE II (Wow! Structured programming.)

* GWBasic

* Turbo Pascal (Thank you Mr. Khan! The best $ 49 I've ever spent!)

* Turbo-C

* dBASE III + (Wow, my dBASE II report generator now only takes 2 hours to run instead of 7.)

* Clipper / Foxbase

* dBASE IV

* dBASE SQL

* Microsoft C (first under DOS, then under Windows 3.1)

* SuperBase (first under Amiga DOS, then for MS Windows)

* Windows Provider (Whatever happened to this? Gupta?)

* Visual Basic 2.0

* Delphi

* Visual Basic 3.0

* Access Basic / Word Basic (Microsoft)

* Newton's text (my "elegant" first language)

* Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0

* programming language

* FormLogic (for Apple Newton)

* Codewarrior C for Palm OS

* Visual Basic 6.0

* NS BASIC for Palm and Windows CE

* FileMaker 5

* Satellite forms

* Visual C ++

* REAL Basic for Mac 9.x and OSX

* Java

* Codewarrior C ++ for the Palm operating system

* Appforge for Palm OS and Pocket PC

* C #

* FileMaker Pro 7.0

Whew! Not only is this a good exercise to think about all the languages ​​you've worked with, but it is a good example of how languages ​​and technology have advanced over the past 25 years. I am sure I will add more to PLMP in the near future as well. As with most of the programmers I know, there is a lot I want to learn but I don’t have much time.

Another good exercise is to bring this up as a topic for discussion with a group of programmers after a nice long day at any technical trade show. For example, a long time ago, after a long day at the OS / 2 developer conference in Seattle (yes, you come back here), I brought up the assembly language programming topic 6502. This was during dinner at about 7 pm. The resulting conversation was relayed to the hotel lobby, which lasted until about 2 am. (Oh, good days.);)

(If you are a developer, I am interested in seeing the programming migration path. Shoot an email to timdottrimbleatgmaildotcom.)

Timothy Trimble, The Art of Software Development

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