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Here's a place to let people know what, exactly, you can hack. (Or use.)
 
Here's a place to let people know what, exactly, you can hack. (Or use.)
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(Edited to remove graduated students. Revert if you feel that is wrong.)
  
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==Computer Languages==
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Also for those who feel that they are inadequate because they cannot program in TeX/Mathematica, there will be workshops on these topics during Winter Study. All Math majors will receive an email about this soon. Anyone else can sign up by emailing Rahul Shah (09ras) or look in the daily messages/other appropriate communication media.
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==The Devil's Languages==
  
 
===Assembly Language===
 
===Assembly Language===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (kind of...)
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[[Jing Cao]] now knows he should extend before division
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (I make things crash)
  
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[[Paul N. Stansifer '07]] (my claim to masculinity)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Not good. Not good.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (I'd be the a5 register on the emulator because that one definitely doesn't work.)
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
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[[Jing Cao]] now knows he should extend before division
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[[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.
  
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===Befunge===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] gdb is your friend!
  
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Steve Winslow '04
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===Bash===
  
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] :(){:|:&};:
  
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===C===
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===Befunge===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]
 
  
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04
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===C===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah] (is pretty much the God of C, but mostly because C stands for medioCre)
  
 
[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
 
[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
  
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===Haskell===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
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Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors
  
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Hello world only
  
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===Hypertalk===
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Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.
  
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[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
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===Java===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] heap allocators, garbage collectors, and painful debugging!
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)
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===C++===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang] How do I deal with memory leaks? I use smart pointers.
  
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)
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===Haskell===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (not bad either.)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] tentatively agrees
  
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===JavaScript===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/abs1 Antal Spector-Zabusky] <code>:: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]</code>
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)
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===Hypertalk===
  
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===LabVIEW===
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[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!
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===Java===
  
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Joe Shoer '06 (though he's ashamed to admit he knows such a stupid language)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] will always be a beginner in this language. Just don't get it.
  
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Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT a stupid language!  Three cheers for graphical programming!)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10arn Arjun Narayan] Will always be in love with this one.
  
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===LaTeX===
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
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[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (too good for word processing)
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[[Sean Barker '09]] knows too many of the libraries by heart.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word)
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===LabVIEW===
  
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[[Diana Davis '07]] (infinitely superior to anything else)
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===LaTeX===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (It's pretty frickin sweet)
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Any Div. III major with the slightest notion of aesthetics.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] (Offers TeX services for $10/hr.)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] Used to be in the league but have since defected to using Lyx: the Wysiwyg Latex editor.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Would like her chemistry reports to be TeX-ed, but alas, converting chemical structures from ChemDraw to .jpg on her Windows side and then switching into her Linux side where the Windows side is mounted and then converting .jpgs into the accepted TeX format is too many steps.  But if she ever decided aesthetics were worth everything and anything, she'd be all up ons for chem reports TeX-ed.)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Can barely survive it.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08nv Nela Vukmirovic] thinks it's not worth the pain.
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sunmi yang '08 has found the new love of her life in TeX and Beamer.  Some even call TeX her abusive boyfriend.
  
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[[Aidan Finley '04]] spent a week teaching it to himself during his thesis crunch, which indirectly contributed to a case of sleep deprivation and a subsequent fall in Sawyer Library. This in turn produced a leg wound which required hospitalization during Senior Week.
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[[Rahul Shah]] Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.
  
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===Lisp===
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
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(cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04
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===Matlab===
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(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))
 
  
 
===Mathematica===
 
===Mathematica===
  
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[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)
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Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
  
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[[Joe Shoer '06]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
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(a must-learn for any physics major)
  
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[[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)
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Math majors can do it too.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals!  Ooh!)
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sunmi yang '08 (it's my math thesis, so there, Joe)
  
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[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)
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===Objective C===
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Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
 
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Jerry He (an amazing language for quick & dirty programming)
 
  
 
===PARI/GP===
 
===PARI/GP===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (For a number theoretic software called [http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ PARI]; similar to C)
 
  
 
===Perl===
 
===Perl===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06cks Kai Steverson] (competent)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/jmh1 $ perl -e "length q local and print chr oct ord q open do and print chr ord qw q uc q and print chr ord qw q lc q and print chr ord q tie lt and print chr ord q map m and print chr ord qw q ne q and print chr ord q q q and print chr ord uc q chr lc and print chr ord q ref or and print chr ord q msgctl m and print chr ord qw q s q"]
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)
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===PHP===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] (kind of)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)
  
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Also knows what all three letters stand for. And all three. And all three. And all three...
  
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[[Bartley Tablante '07]]
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[[Sean Barker '09]] also knows what the three letters used to stand for.
  
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===PHP===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/jmh1 Julian Hess] agrees that PHP provides for pretty hellish programming.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] better than Perl at least...
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)
 
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] (also knows what the P stands for)
 
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (When really desperate and focused.)
 
  
 
===PL/SQL===
 
===PL/SQL===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (a terrible language)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/jmh1 Julian Hess] '; DROP DATABASE
  
 
===Python===
 
===Python===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (the scripting language of choice)
 
  
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
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===R===
 
===R===
  
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[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (it makes statistics fun!)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] But not as good as [[Aaron Schwartz]]
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (needs to learn how to put his skills on his own line but is probably very capable at R)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] is quite capable at R, more so than STATA
  
 
===Ruby===
 
===Ruby===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (the scripting language of choice)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
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(the language of convenience)
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===TI-BASIC===
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[[Sean Barker '09]] (an exercise in pain)
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===WC3400 Microcode===
  
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (the most beautiful language ever)
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Jing Cao Broke the phase 2 record
  
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===WC237 Microcode===
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Broke the pass/fail barrier.
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (well, at one point at least...)
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[[Sean Barker '09]] and [[Charles Cao '09]] broke 8 microinstructions per ASM instruction
  
 
===XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery===
 
===XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery===
  
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (hey, at least I'm not claiming CSS & HTML to be languages)
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==God's Languages==
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===Lisp===
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(append (cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04
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(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))
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[[Arjun Narayan]])
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== Hardware ==
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=== Electric ===
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Arjun Narayan '10
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=== Breaking CPU chips ===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (one victim hung on my door)
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=== Peck-Typing ===
  
 
==Software==
 
==Software==
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===ChemDraw===
 
===ChemDraw===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Don't make me clipware you.)
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===Microsoft Paint===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons]
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/ts4 Tarjinder Singh] The hardest program he knows how to use... :)
  
 
===PowerPoint===
 
===PowerPoint===
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)
 
  
 
===Adobe Photoshop===
 
===Adobe Photoshop===
  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (Has ridiculous photoshop skills and can do just about anything with a digital image given enough time)
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[[Sean Hayes]] (Decent skills)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07im Ines Major] (also has ridiculous skills)
 
  
 
===AppleWorks===
 
===AppleWorks===
  
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)
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==1337 |-|@><0R==
  
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] (still uses it in drawing and painting mode. He is a 13-year Apple drawing veteran.)
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[[Toby Hall]]. w00t
  
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[[Laurie Brink]] sort-of-'05 (disputes that this is actually a "computer skill," seeing as the charming thing about AppleWorks is that it's infinitely more user-friendly and intuitive than Microsoft Office)
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[[Ted Wiles]] (Ted is an amazing hacker and programmer. It isn't uncommon for his digg.com articles to yield over 250 diggs in one day. He also is passionate about his art and has plans to do a thesis senior year that allows him to reinterpret famous art works completely through graphic design software. He is also very good at hacking.)

Latest revision as of 23:15, May 31, 2019

Here's a place to let people know what, exactly, you can hack. (Or use.) (Edited to remove graduated students. Revert if you feel that is wrong.)

Also for those who feel that they are inadequate because they cannot program in TeX/Mathematica, there will be workshops on these topics during Winter Study. All Math majors will receive an email about this soon. Anyone else can sign up by emailing Rahul Shah (09ras) or look in the daily messages/other appropriate communication media.

The Devil's Languages

Assembly Language

Jing Cao now knows he should extend before division

Son Ho (I make things crash)

Arjun Narayan '10 Not good. Not good.

Jeff Marsceill '08

Sean Barker '09 had flashbacks during Compilers.

Qiao Zhang'13 gdb is your friend!

Bash

Chuan Ji :(){:|:&};:

Befunge

C

Rahul Shah (is pretty much the God of C, but mostly because C stands for medioCre)

Jing Cao Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors

Jerry He Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors

Arjun Narayan '10 Hello world only

Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.

Jeff Marsceill '08

Qiao Zhang'13 heap allocators, garbage collectors, and painful debugging!

C++

Chuan Ji How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any.

Qiao Zhang How do I deal with memory leaks? I use smart pointers.

Haskell

Jerry He tentatively agrees

Antal Spector-Zabusky :: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]

Hypertalk

Alan Cordova Booyah!

Java

Jerry He will always be a beginner in this language. Just don't get it.

Arjun Narayan Will always be in love with this one.

Jeff Marsceill '08

Sean Barker '09 knows too many of the libraries by heart.

LabVIEW

LaTeX

Any Div. III major with the slightest notion of aesthetics.

Jerry He Used to be in the league but have since defected to using Lyx: the Wysiwyg Latex editor.

Arjun Narayan '10 Can barely survive it.

sunmi yang '08 has found the new love of her life in TeX and Beamer. Some even call TeX her abusive boyfriend.

Rahul Shah Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.

Jeff Marsceill '08

Matlab

Mathematica

Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets

Jerry He (a must-learn for any physics major)

Math majors can do it too.

sunmi yang '08 (it's my math thesis, so there, Joe)

Objective C

PARI/GP

Perl

$ perl -e "length q local and print chr oct ord q open do and print chr ord qw q uc q and print chr ord qw q lc q and print chr ord q tie lt and print chr ord q map m and print chr ord qw q ne q and print chr ord q q q and print chr ord uc q chr lc and print chr ord q ref or and print chr ord q msgctl m and print chr ord qw q s q"

PHP

Katherine Huang (sort of)

Arjun Narayan '10 Also knows what all three letters stand for. And all three. And all three. And all three...

Sean Barker '09 also knows what the three letters used to stand for.

Julian Hess agrees that PHP provides for pretty hellish programming.

Chuan Ji better than Perl at least...

PL/SQL

Julian Hess '; DROP DATABASE

Python

Jerry He (the greatest language ever invented! If not the most useful)

R

Arjun Narayan '10 But not as good as Aaron Schwartz

Jerry He is quite capable at R, more so than STATA

Ruby

Jerry He (the language of convenience)

TI-BASIC

Sean Barker '09 (an exercise in pain)

WC3400 Microcode

Jing Cao Broke the phase 2 record

Arjun Narayan '10 Broke the pass/fail barrier.

Sean Barker '09 and Charles Cao '09 broke 8 microinstructions per ASM instruction

XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery

God's Languages

Lisp

(append (cons 'Brent Yorgey (cons '04 (cons 'Jessica Chung '07))) Arjun Narayan)

Hardware

Electric

Arjun Narayan '10

Breaking CPU chips

Son Ho (one victim hung on my door)

Peck-Typing

Software

ChemDraw

Microsoft Paint

Tarjinder Singh The hardest program he knows how to use... :)

PowerPoint

Adobe Photoshop

Sean Hayes (Decent skills)

AppleWorks

1337 |-|@><0R

Toby Hall. w00t

Ted Wiles (Ted is an amazing hacker and programmer. It isn't uncommon for his digg.com articles to yield over 250 diggs in one day. He also is passionate about his art and has plans to do a thesis senior year that allows him to reinterpret famous art works completely through graphic design software. He is also very good at hacking.)

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