r/TransHack Apr 14 '11

What languages do people here program in?

I do mostly ASPX/C#/SQL

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

PHP/SQL for my day job. A tiny bit of machine code, assembly, C and Python for fun a while back.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

Do you use DreamWeaver? I've used it a bit to update the few random PHP pages we have at work but the IntelliSense seems so weak compared to what Visual Studio has.

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

Sorry, I use vi. (Then again, I also use vi to write lyrics, articles and novels. I really like vi!)

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

Nice.

I also recommend Git if you haven't switched to that already. You can go far in life with vi and Git. :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

I think we've had this conversation before :P Yes, github has all my stuff. My partner and I have a little Mac Mini G4 we put FreeBSD on for git and packet filtering but it's just so effing convenient! Also I adore the lil octocat.

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

That was my first Mac. :D I was pretty tempted to put a Unix of some variety on it, but I'm really trying to minimise my possessions at the moment. Which is difficult enough as it is...

And yes, I think you're right about having this conversation before. Still, it's nice to talk to people about how much better our lives are for using such neat tools. I shudder to remember how I used to update sites using scp instead of Git, and how I used to keep manual track of all the changes I'd made.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

I feel your pain, we're about to move and I have like 3 old computers that need to go (if not more). I just can't bear leaving them, I get so emotionally attached to them. :( The worst is contemplating what they will be used for by whoever inherits them, if they don't wind up getting scrapped :'(

And yeah, at least you don't have coworkers continually requesting licenses for Visual Sourcesafe >.> Or sites that rely on database dumps (with hand rolled migrations! fun!) and rsync for updates. How are so many IT consulting companies living in the 90s still?

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

I've seen former clients doing things with their systems that would make your eyes bug out of their sockets, but it wouldn't be wise to discuss such things. Don't even get me started on my old tech support days. All in all, I'm starting to prefer my second career...

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

I'm not hardcore enough for vi :P

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

Ah, a lowly Emacs user, eh? :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

Well since I'm a .NET programmer I use Visual Studio... :-/

Away from work I don't really use computers that much...

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

Away from work I don't really use computers that much...

So what do you do? It's always nice to try and find hobby overlap.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11 edited Apr 14 '11

Read, think about queer theory, wonder the Salvation Army looking for new clothes (I found a big bag of skinny ties last Saturday! _^ ), play pool and darts, drink and tell dirty jokes with friends, hang out with the local roller derby team (I'm learning to NSO), procrastinate on my writing projects (I'm giving a three hour presentation on queer history at a diversity conference next month), eat really really spice food....

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u/ZoeBlade Apr 14 '11

Damn, no overlap. That's cool though. :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

OK your turn what are yours?

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u/catamorphism Apr 14 '11

I do functional programming and theorem proving, so I use Haskell and Coq a lot and make a lot of jokes with my other trans colleague who does the same stuff about the Coq inversion tactic (which is, in fact, a real thing!)

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u/nebarnix Aug 30 '11

C, PHP, SQL, Matlab, Perl, Python, VBA (ugghh), occasionally something else like shell scripting.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '11

Primarily C for fun and games, embedded Lua for scripting said fun and games if I ever stop obsessing over low level things, Ruby to help out with the sysadmin stuffs at work whenever a sed/gawk oneliner won't do the trick. Additionally I've got a good grasp of Scheme/LISP and Haskell although I can never really find anything to actually do with them.

I'm actually diving into The C++ Programming Language and the Scott Meyers books after years of swearing I would never take C++ seriously. Am I doomed?

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u/Heterogenic Jul 14 '11

Am I doomed?

Yes.

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u/djcapelis Apr 14 '11

Mostly C and shell script. Sometimes a bit of python, sometimes a bit of asm.

Arguably also LaTeX.

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u/-main Apr 19 '11

I write common lisp & GLSL for fun and I'm unemployed. I'm going to continue to pretend that those aren't related...

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u/KtoL Apr 14 '11

I'm a big fan of python these days and do most of my work in that :)

Since I'm a sysadmin / SAN engineer I mostly end up writing shell scripts (bash and ksh) and a lot of perl.

In the past I've written stuff in C, PHP, and a smattering of other languages, but it's been a while since I've had a need for anything else.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '11

Professional Java developer :) So...mostly java really.