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 still play about with delphi 6

i used to code patches for the ibm mainframes in assembler

i can still read fluent hex

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 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!