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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Rough order of what languages I ‘learned’ (excluding data-only stuff like YAML or JSON and purely presentational languages like HTML and CSS):

  • Racket (back when it was DrScheme, I probably could not use it or any other Scheme dialect today even if my life depended on it)
  • C
  • FreeBASIC (like with Racket, probably could not use it today).
  • Lua
  • Python
  • MS-DOS CMD
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Lex
  • Yacc
  • Forth
  • AVR assembly
  • MSP430 assembly
  • POSIX sh
  • VimScript (and by extension ex and sed)
  • SQL
  • PowerShell
  • AWK
  • Elixir
  • M4

In theory, I’ve not ‘learned’ but can still kind of understand most C family languages, Erlang, PHP, Ruby, Pascal, FORTRAN, ALGOL, PERL, and Go.

Of all of that, the only ones I actually work with regularly today are Python, POSIX sh, and more recently Elixir, though I still make occasional use of many of the others.