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Here comes my programming journey (if I remember correctly):
1984 Basic on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 16
1986 MSX Basic on Canon V20 and the SVI. C64 Basic. C128 Basic.
1988 AmigaBasic and a little Pascal
1990 AMOS Basic
1992 MS Basic
1994 A tiny little bit of Assembler
1995 QBasic
1997 C
1998 Javascript
1999 C++
2002 ASP + VBScript. DarkBasic
2006 PHP
2014 C#/.Net
2018 RPG and ColdFusion
2020 Luau/Roblox
2024 Unity (C#)
My (likely incomplete) programming journey:
1998 - html/css in after school program
2000 - learned to write batch files for windows 98
2002 - visual basic 6 freshmen high school class
2003 - ti-86 basic programs for games and math class formulas
2004 - visual basic .net classes for programming competitions
2007 - c and c++ college intro classes
2008 - PHP and SQL flavors (oracle, MySQL) for class
2010 - more .net + c# classes
2011 - deep php and postgres for work
2012 - html/css/JavaScript change in focus for work projects (backbone.js)
2013 - node.js for work and hobby projects (frontend build tools + react)
2014 - picked up python
2016 - node.js deep dive for backend (serverless, nosql)
Pretty much stayed the course with my language skill set. Honing system design chops along the way.
2025 - elixir is my new jam
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