30 years of Hello World - One Developers Life Language Journey...

Wintellect - JLikness - 30 Years of Hello, World

I recently took a vacation the same week as the 4th of July and had lots of time to reflect upon my career to date. It was a little shocking to realize I’ve been writing code for nearly 30 years now! I decided to take advantage of some of the extra time off to author this nostalgic post and explore all of the languages I’ve worked with for the past 30 years. So this is my tribute to 30 years of learning new languages starting with “Hello, World.”

• 1981 – TI BASIC
• 1984 – Commodore BASIC
• 1985 – 6502 Machine Code
• 1986 – 6502 Assembly
• 1989 – Pascal
• 1990 – C
• 1992 – C++
• 1993 – Fortran
• 1993 – PERL
• 1993 – HTML 
• 1994 – Win32 / C++ (Example is a bit more recent)
• 1995 – RPG
• 1995 – COBOL
• 1996 – RPG/ILE
• 1998 – SQL
• 1996 – QuakeC
• 1998 – VB6 (COM) w/ ASP
• 1998 – JavaScript
• 1998 – XML/XSLT to HTML
• 2002 – PHP
• 2004 – Java
• 2005 – C#
• 2008 – Silverlight (C# and XAML)
• 2011 – WinRT / C#
• 2012 – TypeScript
• 2013 – AngularJS

Interesting list wasn't it? Helps show just how far and fast technology has come doesn't it?