<h2>Programming Languages</h2>

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 During my studies and personal work, I've used a variety of programming

 languages. Here is an overview in chronologic order with some comments:</p>

 <ul>

 <li>

 <h4>QBasic. *</h4>

 It was the first language that I've learned. I've enjoyed hacking

 around in it a little, but never got far with it due to lack of

 learning resources.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>C++. *****</h4>

 My first contact was at the age of 15, though I hadn't used it

 extensively until I started studying. In the past years, I've been

 developing most of my personal and professional work in C++. It's a beast and should be only handled with care.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Java. ***</h4>

 My first contact with Java was at the university. 

 </li>

 <li>

 <h4>Haskell. *</h4>

 This language was a love-hate relationship for me. I hated it for being

 so difficult to grasp for the first time and loved it for inspiring me

 to approach problem solving from a differnt angle, even when working

 with non-functional languages.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Prolog. **</h4>

 Nice iterative language especially for the field of artificial

 intelligence.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>C. *****</h4>

 C is clean and flat. It is still the most successful structured language and will most probably still be in use for many years to come, even if it's just "under the hood".</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Assembler. **</h4>

 Been there, done that.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>C#. ***</h4>

 It feels like the more mature language based on a managed architecture, especially in combination with Visual Studio, developing

 in it is a breeze. The .Net framework is mostly a well structured and

 complete environment to work in.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Python. *****</h4> 

 It's my personal favourite language for many fields. It's best suited

 for rapid prototyping, which fits perfectly into my method of working.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Go. *</h4>

 The goal of Go was to provide a general purpose programming language including a garbage collector and efficient methods for concurrency handling. The language shows some interesting concepts including a more dynamic approach on object orientation. The lack of generics and the ideology of not giving the programmer the same tools as the language designer have, made me abandon it for the time being.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Common Lisp. **</h4>

 I'm having fun on my path to enlightenment, mostly hacking in the dark.

 </li>

 <li>

 <br />* show my level of expertise in the language

 </li>

 </ul>

 <h2>Operating Systems</h2>

 <ul>

 <li><h4>GNU/Linux</h4>

 Ubuntu, openSUSE, Red Hat and CentOS.</li>

 <li><h4>Microsoft Windows</h4>

 Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7.</li>

 <li><h4>AmigaOS</h4>

 Been a while...</li>

 </ul>

 <h2>Environments</h2>

 <ul>

 <li>

 <h4>Emacs, GVim &amp; gedit</h4>

 These are my general purpose editors for quick editing on all platforms

 and have become my prefered editors when working in an IDE-free environment.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Visual Studio</h4>

 It's my first choice IDE for C#, C++ and C programming on Windows. It has

 proven to be a feature-rich, reliable and customisable IDE with great debugger integration.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Eclipse</h4>

 It's what I prefer when developing in Java (but I prefer not to) and, to some extent, when working in C++ on Linux. It has a great plugin system and is therefore extendable to be used with a big variety of languages and tools.</li>

 </ul>

 <h2>Tools</h2>

 <ul>

 <li>

 <h4>Internet</h4>

 Chrome for browsing and IRSSI for IRC.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Documentation</h4>

 LaTeX for papers, gnuplot for analysis visualisations and Inkscape for vector graphics.</li>

 <li>

 <h4>Version Control</h4>

 Mercurial for private work. 

 Subversion/CVS when forced.</li>

 </ul>