# Programming Languages

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [August 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633 "2003-08-28T21:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![grandsp5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/1 "2003-08-28T21:41:01Z")

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Just wondering what languages people here know:

Me: BASIC, C, C++, Java, ActionScript, started PHP today 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/2 "2003-08-28T21:42:09Z")

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little actionscript, little php,

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/3 "2003-08-28T21:50:14Z")

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a bit of Python & Java…as well as good 'ol qbasic

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/4 "2003-08-28T21:55:12Z")

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Um… In the order I learned them:

BASIC, Pascal, COBOL, C, Assembly language, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActionScript, PHP, ASP.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/5 "2003-08-28T21:59:24Z")

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HTML, AS, XML, xHTML, PHP, JavaScript, a little C, and a little Visual Basic.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/6 "2003-08-28T22:00:11Z")

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oh i forgot one…I learned this awesome language in the 4th grade where I could move a turtle around on the screen, but I can’t remember the name… ARGH…it will come back to me eventually

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/7 "2003-08-28T22:02:38Z")

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LOGO 😛

You’ll have no problem with PHP grandsp, it’s a really easy language 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/8 "2003-08-28T22:04:09Z")

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yeah LOGO! That was so much fun. I was the master turtle mover of my fourth grade class 🙂 Thanks for the words of encouragement on PHP njs. I can’t seem to get it set up on my computer so that I can test it though, I keep having to upload to a server which is kind of annoying. I cant find the IIS console to enable. ??

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/9 "2003-08-28T22:05:18Z")

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ASM, BASIC, DOS, PASCAL, C++, C, VB, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, XML, PHP, CGI, ACTIONSCRIPT, Lingo (Director x), proce55ing (more or less java) :), opengl (c++), directx 7/8 (c++/java).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/10 "2003-08-28T22:08:09Z")

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I would use apache.

I use a pre-packaged version called WAMP. It’s very easy to use, it’s packaged in a Windows Installer so ya just click next 😉

[http://www.e-novative-gmbh.de/php/ephp.php](http://www.e-novative-gmbh.de/php/ephp.php)

There’s some more info that you might like in this thread: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31579&perpage=15&pagenumber=1](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31579&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)  
EDIT: Holy cow thor, you know a lot of languages!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/11 "2003-08-28T22:08:29Z")

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EBS++ (Eating Babies Scripting)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/12 "2003-08-28T22:12:19Z")

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Dan, that language sounds very useful… I tried to learn it some time ago but failed miserably.

You wouldn’t happen to have some links to help me learn it would you?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/13 "2003-08-28T22:15:34Z")

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lol dan 😛

I know some AS, and html (of course), started ASP yesterday…

I’m not a great coder 🙂

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/14 "2003-08-28T22:17:55Z")

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[http://members.tripod.com/angrymack/id22.htm](http://members.tripod.com/angrymack/id22.htm)

> **[Could Cannibalism Be Alive and Well in Modern World?](https://www.thoughtco.com/do-they-eat-babies-in-china-3299484?terms=fetuses)**
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> According to the Internet, the Chinese eat human babies and fetuses as a delicacy, or for medicinal purposes. Is there any evidence to back this up?

> **[Eating Babies](http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/3333)**
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> YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IT in all the Raelian cloning news, but Channel 4 of British television began the New Year with a broadcast about a Chinese performance artist who eats a baby's corpse. Described by executives of Channel 4 as a thought-provoking...

[http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/ursula/](http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/ursula/)

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/15 "2003-08-28T22:33:23Z")

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I just want to say: HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, PERL, XML, etc are not programming languages, for obvious reasons.

That said, my list:

BASIC (Ti-83 basic, but basic nonetheless ;)), AS, LOGO

That’s it. I’ll be getting into proce55ing soon, and PHP is also on my todo list (altho not a programming language).

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/16 "2003-08-28T22:34:45Z")

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Hey njs, I got the php scripts to work locally using easyPHP. Just took lots of translating from french 😉

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/17 "2003-08-28T22:40:01Z")

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If you have any problems with PHP, you can come on the IRC channel and I’ll try my best to help you out.

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/18 "2003-08-28T22:48:06Z")

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Great 🙂 Thanks a bunch. You are in the UK though, a little odd time difference. I can’t come on during the day because I am at work but in the evenings if I need help I will seek your wisdom.

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/19 "2003-08-28T23:02:52Z")

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DOS, BASIC, QBASIC, Visual Basic, Visual Basic Scripting, C++

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, XML, ASP, [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET)(not as well), Perl, PHP, Actionscript

i think that’s it…

Response.Write “Yes they are.”

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-languages/29633/20 "2003-08-28T23:07:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by [m] \*  
> \*\*I just want to say: HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, PERL, XML, etc are not programming languages, for obvious reasons.

my man just a quick question. how do you list php/asp up there then list AS as a real programming language

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