Languages A-Z Challenge
I was futzing around with my CV today, and this question suddenly occurred to me:
Do I know a language for each letter of the alphabet?
And it turns out, no I don’t. here’s my best shot of an alphabetic list of languages I do know reasonably well, and have been paid for writing programs in:
- Awk
- BASIC
- COBOL
- dBase II
- E??????
- FORTH
- Gupta SQLWindows
- H??????
- IBM JCL
- Java
- K??????
- Lahey FORTRAN
- MASM
- Nomad/2
- Object Pascal
- PHP
- Quick C
- Rexx
- SeaChange
- Transact SQL
- U??????
- Visual C++
- W??????
- X??????
- Yacc
- Z80 Assembler
The ?????? entries are ones I can’t provide.
Obviously, I know more languages than are listed here (many beginning with the letter C). The challenge I lay down is to produce a 26-element list of languages given these rules:
- You must have been paid for writing code in the language. For example, I have programmed in Haskell (which would give me the H entry), but nobody has ever paid me to do so.
- You can use specific implementation names (like Visual C++), but a language (C++) must be appear only once in the list.
A small no-prize of golden NULL pointer will be awarded for anyone that convincingly comes up with a 26 element list!
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