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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] (kind of...)
 
[[Paul N. Stansifer '07]] (my claim to masculinity)
 
[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.)
[[Jing Cao]] now knows he should extend before division
[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
 
[[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] 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===
Steve Winslow '04
 
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04
===C===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]  [[Brent Yorgey]] '04 [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
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, it's a good thing we have MPI to make C programming more difficult)] Hello world only
Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's 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=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)
 
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (not bad either.)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (no shame here)
[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.
===JavaScript===[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
[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===
 
Joe Shoer '06 (though he's ashamed to admit he knows such a stupid language)
 
Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT a stupid language! Three cheers for graphical programming!)
===LaTeX===
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (too good for word processing) [http://wsoAny Div.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (really, what good is WYSIWYG?) [[Diana Davis '07]] (infinitely superior to anything else) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (It's pretty frickin sweet) [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] (Offers TeX services for $10/hr.) [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 III major with the Windows side is mounted and then converting .jpgs into the accepted TeX format is too many steps. But if she ever decided slightest notion of aesthetics were worth everything and anything, she'd be all up ons for chem reports TeX-ed.)  [[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.
[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.
[[Rahul Shah]] Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.
===Lisp=== (append (cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons Jeff Marsceill '04(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))[[Arjun Narayan08]])
===Matlab===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(greatest language ever for quick visual programming)
===Mathematica===
 
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)
 
[[Joe Shoer '06]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)
 
[[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals! Ooh!)
 
[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)
Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(a must-learn for any physics major)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio]
(a must-learn for any CS major also)
Math majors can do it too.
===Objective C===
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (yay for Cocoa!)
===PARI/GP===
 
[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===
[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=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)
[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=06tfv Travis Vachon] (the scripting language of choice)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(the greatest language ever invented! If not the most useful)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (it's okay, but it's no Ruby)
===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=06emm Evan Miller] (the scripting language of choice)
 
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (the most beautiful language ever)
[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===
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (well, at one point at least...)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Short and slow microcode, like her short and slow self.)
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 ===
 
[[Jonathan Landsman]] (fast, loud, and blind. has entertained friends)
==Software==
===ChemDraw===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Don't make me clipware you.)==Microsoft Paint===
[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===
 
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)
===Adobe Photoshop===
 
[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)
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07im Ines Major] (also has ridiculous skills)
[[Sean Hayes]] (Decent skills)
===AppleWorks===
 
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)
 
[[Jono Dowse '06]] (still uses it in drawing and painting mode. He is a 13-year Apple drawing veteran.)
 
[[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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