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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In order of learning:

  • Basic
  • Fortran
  • Pascal
  • 6502 Assembler
  • Cobol
  • C
  • Unix shell
  • Quel
  • Awk
  • Troff
  • Perl (my favorite)
  • SQL
  • C++
  • Java
  • PL/SQL
  • Javascript
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh boy, PL/SQL!

in my previous job, we had one product with ~2M lines of code, which had one single PL/SQL procedure that was 10 000 lines long.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Most of them, and a bunch of others. Just learned something like a programming language today.

I've probably forgotten more programming languages than most kids today could list. Comes with the territory if you're in the business for over 40 years.