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boykster:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron link=topic=77097.msg803632#msg803632 ---Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?

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considering I didn't learn to program in college, that'd be a no on that front ;D

I'm not a huge fan of the Visual Studio IDE (slow bloated), but where I work now is heavily into porting things to the .NET environment and we're building a lot of data infrastructure using datasets/datatable/tableadapters and whilst you CAN build those xml files manually in an editor, its a lot easier to build and test them in the UI.

I prefer a good text editor for most other programming....I've not used scite but have seen it, I may check it out for another project I'm starting....back in my perl days I used emacs and pico a lot...

ChadTower:

I miss Emacs.  I loved it in college - used to write modules for it in elisp.  You don't see it very often in corporate environments anymore.  It is considered a security risk by many admins, right or wrong.  Same with PERL.  I used to spend 8-9 hours a day just in PERL.  Where I work now we're specifically forbidden from using it.

CCM:
I still use PERL for some quick adhoc programming...  Can't beat it for string manipulation.  We don't use it in production, but I use it for testing, conversions, etc...

boykster:
PERL is a great little language for string manipulation; it's heavily used in bioinformatics dealing with genomic and proteomic data since that data is essentially gigantic text streams....

Dartful Dodger:
I learned Japanese and American Sign Language in college.

I went to an art school for animation.  3D animation was what I was hoping to do.  I got a job animating with Director.  At the time shockwave was just fancier animated gif.  Director evolved into a multimedia program, I evolved with it, then I out grew it.

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