Hey all,

I'd like to know who are the programmers (staff or otherwise) who play here. What languages do you program in? What has been your most toughest thing to program yet?

I program in Python, XHTML, PHP, and CSS. My toughest project yet has been a RSA cracker that uses a new algorithm I developed that theoretically speeds it up. I still have not finished it due to the complexity of it. I am currently considering programming a dice baseball game in Python.

Do you know anyone who programs in Java?

I used to know how to do some Java...was part of a university course I dropped out of.

There are still a few of us dinasaurs who still use COBOL IMS and DB2 and JCL types left.  Go Mainframes! 

I mostly design now, but have coded in most of the major languages.

Sometimes I do hex math if it only has to be close enough to be in the right page of a dump.

I've programmed in a wide variety of languages over the course of the last two decades.  I've done it professionally, but right now I code for fun (professionally, strangely, it isn't that fun).  I started with Apple Basic and right now I use perl more than anything (although I will be using a lot of javascript again soon).

The most difficult thing I've done.. that's hard to pinpoint.  Back in the day before graphics engines I wrote my own 2D vector engine using mode 13h in pascal, and then used it for a few games I wrote.  So in terms of sheer mathematical complexity I would say that would be it.. On the other hand, I wrote an online game a while back (more recent) that almost reached 800,000 lines, and simply managing that amount of (unplanned) code made it more difficult in a lot of ways.

I wonder how complicated that dice baseball game would be to code...

I am just learning programming Visual Basic 6

Does anybody programs here in vb6?

I found out it was too tough for me to do!

Anyone who wants to help develop a new application for Facebook? It won't be chess-related, but it will be strategy based!

Tell us more about it first.

I'm learning to program in Python, I'm only halfway through the book; I can basic word games, but that's it.

I code C# .NET Web apps on a professional basis and Ruby on Rails apps on a fun, bedroom-project basis. I've learned a lot of languages over the years - developing Web applications in everything from Java to Perl, to classic ASP with VB Coms - and Ruby on Rails trumps them all. It's made programming fun for me again!

I program in loopland and lan for better connections, new tech is upland

 I was thinking along the lines of a space combat type of application, but I'm playing a game that has that. Any suggestions are welcome!

Of course, a chess application would be awesome as well to code!

I'm gonna try and program a wage per minute calculator in Javascript for my podcast's site. That should be fairly easy to do, I hope.

These days I mostly program in SAS (for work) or Python (for myself). But I've been programming for almost thirty years now, so I've used a lot of languages: BASIC, Pascal, HyperTalk, C++, Lisp, R, Java, and some others I've forgotten.

The toughest project is the one I'm working on now. It's a program for keeping track of your online chess games, allowing you to explore lines and annotate them in various ways. The hard part is that it's meant to be usable for chess variants as well as standard chess, and to be able to read the rules for the variants from XML files.