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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. ==Computer The Devil's Languages==
===Assembly Language===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon[Jing Cao] (kind of...)] now knows he should extend before division
[[Paul Nhttp://wso. Stansifer '07]williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (my claim to masculinityI make things crash)
[http://wso[Arjun Narayan '10]] Not good.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (I'd be the a5 register on the emulator because that one definitely doesn't workNot good.)
[[Jing CaoJeff Marsceill '08]] now knows he should extend before division
[http://wso.williams[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (I make things crash)
[[Arjun Narayan http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'1013]] Not good. Not good.gdb is your friend!
===Bash===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio/cj1 Chuan Ji] :(if only my [[Cowshell]] were so scriptable){:|:&};:
===Befunge===
===C===
[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio[Arjun Narayan '10]] (since dealing with pointers and manual memory management is so trivial, itHello world only Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's a good thing we have MPI to make C programming more difficult)most complicated and boring text-based games.
[[Arjun Narayan Jeff Marsceill '1008]] Hello world only
[[Andrew Triska http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'1013]] writes the world's most complicated heap allocators, garbage collectors, and boring text-based games.painful debugging!
===HaskellC++===[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any.
[[Brent Yorgeyhttp://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)How do I deal with memory leaks? I use smart pointers.
===Haskell===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] tentatively agrees
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/abs1 Antal Spector-Zabusky] <code>:: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]</code>
===Hypertalk===
===Java===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] will always be a beginner in this language. Just don't get it.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10arn Arjun Narayan] Will always be in love with this one.
[http://wso.williams[Sean Barker '09]] knows too many of the libraries by heart.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)
===LabVIEW===
===LaTeX===
[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.
[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Can barely survive it.
===Matlab===
===Mathematica===
Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
(a must-learn for any physics major)
===Objective C===
===PARI/GP===
===Perl===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06cks Kai Steverson] (competent) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] (kind of) [[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozziojmh1 $ 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"] (well enough to know i despise it)
===PHP===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft[Arjun Narayan '10]] (also Also knows what the P stands all three letters stand for). And all three. And all three. And all three...
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung[Sean Barker '09]] (When really desperate and focusedalso knows what the three letters used to stand for.)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya/jmh1 Julian Hess] (kinda..agrees that PHP provides for pretty hellish programming.but I know what all three letters stand for)
[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Also knows what all three letters stand forhttp://wso. And all threewilliams. And all three. And all threeedu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] better than Perl at least...
===PL/SQL===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller/jmh1 Julian Hess] (a terrible language)'; DROP DATABASE
===Python===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(the greatest language ever invented! If not the most useful)
===R===
[[Daniel Klein Arjun Narayan '06|Daniel Klein10]] (it makes statistics fun!) But not as good as [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller[Aaron Schwartz]] (needs to learn how to put his skills on his own line but is probably very capable at R)
[[Arjun Narayan '10]] But not as good as [[Aaron Schwartz]http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]is quite capable at R, more so than STATA
===Ruby===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(the language of convenience)
===TI-BASIC=== [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio[Sean Barker '09]] (where's the strong type checking? the explicit variable declarations? what if I want a global constant?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 '[Ronit Bhattacharyya http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))[[Arjun Narayan]] (hey, at least I'm not claiming CSS & HTML to be languages)
== Hardware ==
=== Electric ===
Arjun Narayan '10
=== Breaking CPU chips ===
=== Peck-Typing ===
==Software==
===ChemDraw===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons/ts4 Tarjinder Singh] ===Microsoft Paint===[http://wsoThe hardest program he knows how to use.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07spt Peter Tosirisuk] doesn't need your fancy "Pho-to-shop" razzmatazz.:)
===PowerPoint===
===Adobe Photoshop===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez[Sean Hayes] (Has ridiculous photoshop skills and can do just about anything with a digital image given enough time) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07im Ines Major] (also has ridiculous Decent skills)
===AppleWorks===
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