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Any programmers out there
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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