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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===
[[Jing Cao]] now knows he should extend before division [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon08slh Son Ho] (kind ofI make things crash) [[Arjun Narayan '10]] Not good. Not good[[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===
[[Paul Nhttp://wso. Stansifer '07]williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] :(my claim to masculinity){:|:&};:
===Befunge===
Steve Winslow '04
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04===C===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix===09ras Rahul Shah] (is pretty much the God of C, but mostly because C===stands for medioCre)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon[Jing Cao] ] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
[[Brent Yorgeyhttp://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]] '04Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah[Arjun Narayan '10]] Hello world only
===Haskell===Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.
[[Brent YorgeyJeff Marsceill '08]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)
===Java===[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] heap allocators, garbage collectors, and painful debugging!
===C++===[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] How do I deal with memory leaks?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)By writing code that doesn't have any.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang] How do I deal with memory leaks?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)I use smart pointers.
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)===Haskell===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung08xjh Jerry He] (not bad either.)tentatively agrees
===JavaScript===[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/abs1 Antal Spector-Zabusky] <code>:: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]</code>
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)==Hypertalk===
===LabVIEW===[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!
Joe Shoer '06 (though he's ashamed to admit he knows such a stupid language)===Java===
Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] will always be a stupid beginner in this language! Three cheers for graphical programming!). Just don't get it.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix===LaTeX===10arn Arjun Narayan] Will always be in love with this one.
[[Daniel Klein Jeff Marsceill '06|Daniel Klein08]] (too good for word processing)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller[Sean Barker '09]] (knows too poor for Word)many of the libraries by heart.
[[Diana Davis '07]] (infinitely superior to anything else)===LabVIEW===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (It's pretty frickin sweet)==LaTeX===
===Lisp===Any Div. III major with the slightest notion of aesthetics.
(cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung08xjh Jerry He] '07)))Used to be in the league but have since defected to using Lyx: the Wysiwyg Latex editor.
===Mathematica===[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Can barely survive it.
[[Daniel Klein sunmi yang '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)08 has found the new love of her life in TeX and Beamer. Some even call TeX her abusive boyfriend.
[[Joe Shoer '06Rahul Shah]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.
[[Laura Effinger-Dean Jeff Marsceill '0608]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals! Ooh!)==Matlab===
[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)===Mathematica===
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) Math majors can do it too. sunmi yang '08 (it's my math thesis, so there, Joe) ==MatLab=Objective C===
===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/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"] (competent)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)==PHP===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao08kch Katherine Huang] (kind sort of)
[[Brent YorgeyArjun Narayan '10]] '04 (JAPH) ===PHP===Also knows what all three letters stand for. And all three. And all three. And all three...
[http://wso.williams[Sean Barker '09]] also knows what the three letters used to stand for.edu/facebook/view?unix=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang/jmh1 Julian Hess] (sort of)agrees that PHP provides for pretty hellish programming.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft/cj1 Chuan Ji] (also knows what the P stands for)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 Vachon08xjh Jerry He] (the scripting greatest language of choiceever invented! If not the most useful)
===R===
[[Daniel Klein Arjun Narayan '06|Daniel Klein10]] But not as good as [[Aaron Schwartz]] (it makes statistics fun!)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller08xjh Jerry He] (needs to learn how to put his skills on his own line but is probably very quite capable at R), more so than STATA
===Ruby===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller08xjh Jerry He] (the scripting language of choiceconvenience===TI-BASIC=== [[Sean Barker '09]] (an exercise in pain) ===WC3400 Microcode===
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (Jing Cao Broke the most beautiful language ever)phase 2 record
===WC237 Microcode===[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Broke the pass/fail barrier.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon[Sean Barker '09] (well, at one point at least...)] and [[Charles Cao '09]] broke 8 microinstructions per ASM instruction
===XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery===
==God's Languages== ===Lisp=== (append (cons '[[Ronit Bhattacharyya Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))[[Arjun Narayan]]) == Hardware == === Electric === Arjun Narayan '10  === Breaking CPU chips === [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (hey, at least I'm not claiming CSS & HTML to be languagesone victim hung on my door=== Peck-Typing ===
==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]The hardest program he knows how to use... :)
===PowerPoint===
===Adobe Photoshop=== [[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05Sean Hayes]] (godlyDecent skills)
===AppleWorks===
==1337 |-|@><0R== [[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05Toby Hall]]. w00t [[Ted Wiles]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirementTed 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.)