At the behest of
Ira Pfeifer here is every programming language I have ever learned. I have grouped these into families since I have met people that have touted the nine variants of COBOL that they know as separate languages and I have considered all of these people to be deserving of horrible, horrible deaths. The grouping makes chronological order impossible.
- BASICs: TRS-80 variety, GWBASIC, QBASIC, VB6, VB.NET.
- C
- Assemblies: x86. And okay, MIPS in school. I have actually written MSIL by hand for production use, although I am not sure if that really belongs here.
- C++, to the degree that anyone other than Stroustrup, Stepanov, and Sutter actually knows this byzantine mess.
- Pascal, but I quickly reconsidered.
- Shell scripts: cmd.exe batch, Bourne, Monad
- Java
- ML's: SML, OCaml, F#
- PHP
- Coldfusion. Feel free not to count this. I just completely forgot that this ever existed and felt like listing it.
- Turing complete SQL's: T-SQL, plpgsql
- C#
- Lisps: Common, Scheme, and Emacs
- Python
- Haskell
- Javascript
- Erlang
- Ruby
- Horrible ideas that some enterprisey person should be in prison for: NAnt, Ant.
- Things that Wikipedia lists as languages but that might be going too far with this: YACC, XSLT, Matlab.
It's hard to pick favorites between Haskell and the Lisp variants. I can get a lot of work done in Lisps but appreciate Haskell for its brainsmashing purity. If I had to point out an obvious deficiency it'd be that I have yet to play with Factor.