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Programming Languages

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    QBasic. *

    sawine@0: It was the first language that I've learned. I've enjoyed hacking sawine@0: around in it a little, but never got far with it due to lack of sawine@0: learning resources.
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    C++. *****

    sawine@0: This was actually my second language to learn, which meant a big leap. sawine@0: My first contact was at the age of 15, though I hadn't used it sawine@0: extensively until I started studying. In the past years, I've been sawine@0: developing most of my personal and professional work in C++. It's a beast and should be sawine@0: only handled with care.
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    Java. ***

    sawine@0: My first contact with Java was at the university. It does provide help sawine@0: by managed memory and a big standard library. sawine@0:
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    Haskell. *

    sawine@0: This language was a love-hate relationship for me. I hated it for being sawine@0: so difficult to grasp for the first time and loved it for inspiring me sawine@0: to approach problem solving from a differnt angle, even when working sawine@0: with non-functional languages.
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    Prolog. **

    sawine@0: Nice iterative language especially for the field of artificial sawine@0: intelligence.
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    C. *****

    sawine@0: C is clean and flat. It is still the most successful structured language and will most sawine@0: probably still be in use for many years to come, even if it's just "under the hood".
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    Assembler. **

    sawine@0: Been there, done that.
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    C#. ***

    sawine@0: It feels like the more mature language based on a managed sawine@0: architecture, especially in combination with Visual Studio, developing sawine@0: in it is a breeze. The .Net framework is mostly a well structured and sawine@0: complete environment to work in.
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    Python. ****

    sawine@0: It's my personal favourite language for many fields. It's best suited sawine@0: for rapid prototyping, which fits perfectly into my method of working.
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    Go. *

    sawine@0: Google has developed an interesting language with the goal of providing a general programming language including a garbage collector and efficient methods for concurrency handling. It's a fun language and shows some interesting concepts including a more dynamic approach on object orientation.
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Operating Systems

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  • GNU/Linux

    sawine@0: Ubuntu, openSUSE, Red Hat and CentOS.
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  • Microsoft Windows

    sawine@0: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7.
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  • AmigaOS

    sawine@0: Been a while...
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Environments

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    GVim & gedit

    sawine@0: These are my general purpose editors for quick editing on all platforms sawine@0: and have become my prefered editors when working in an IDE-free environment.
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    Visual Studio

    sawine@0: It's my first choice for C#, C++ and C programming on Windows. It has sawine@0: proven to be a feature-rich, reliable and customisable IDE with great debugger integration.
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    Eclipse

    sawine@0: It's what I prefer when developing in Java and, to some extent, when sawine@0: working in C++ on Linux. It has a great plugin system and is therefore sawine@0: extendable to be used with a big variety of languages.
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Tools

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    Internet

    sawine@0: Chrome for browsing, IRSSI for IRC and Skype for communication.
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    Documentation

    sawine@0: gedit & LaTeX for papers, gnuplot for analysis visualisations and Inkscape for graphics.
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    Version Control

    sawine@2: Mercurial for private work. sawine@2: Subversion/CVS at work.
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