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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.)
  
==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===
  
[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
  
[[Paul N. Stansifer '07]] (my claim to masculinity)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (I make things crash)
  
[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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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Not good. Not good.
  
===Befunge===
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
Steve Winslow '04
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[[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.
  
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] gdb is your friend!
  
===C===
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===Bash===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]  
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] :(){:|:&};:
  
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04
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===Befunge===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]
 
  
===Haskell===
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===C===
  
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)
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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)
  
===Hypertalk===
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[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
  
[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!
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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
  
===Java===
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Hello world only
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)
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Andrew Triska '10 writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] heap allocators, garbage collectors, and painful debugging!
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (not bad either.)
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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.
  
===JavaScript===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/qz1 Qiao Zhang] How do I deal with memory leaks? I use smart pointers.
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)
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===Haskell===
  
===LabVIEW===
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] tentatively agrees
  
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/abs1 Antal Spector-Zabusky] <code>:: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]</code>
  
Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT a stupid language!  Three cheers for graphical programming!)
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===Hypertalk===
  
===LaTeX===
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[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!
  
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (too good for word processing)
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===Java===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word)
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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.
  
[[Diana Davis '07]] (infinitely superior to anything else)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10arn Arjun Narayan] Will always be in love with this one.
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (It's pretty frickin sweet)
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] (Offers TeX services for $10/hr.)
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[[Sean Barker '09]] knows too many of the libraries by heart.
  
[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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===LabVIEW===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08nv Nela Vukmirovic] thinks it's not worth the pain.
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===LaTeX===
  
===Lisp===
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Any Div. III major with the slightest notion of aesthetics.
  
(cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04
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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.
(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))
 
  
===Mathematica===
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Can barely survive it.
  
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)
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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.
  
[[Joe Shoer '06]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)
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[[Rahul Shah]] Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.
  
[[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)
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[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals!  Ooh!)
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===Matlab===
  
[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)
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===Mathematica===
  
 
Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
 
Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets
  
===MatLab===
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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)
===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)
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Math majors can do it too.
  
===Perl===
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sunmi yang '08 (it's my math thesis, so there, Joe)
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06cks Kai Steverson] (competent)
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===Objective C===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)
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===PARI/GP===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] (kind of)
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===Perl===
  
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH)
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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"]
  
 
===PHP===
 
===PHP===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)
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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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[[Sean Barker '09]] also knows what the three letters used to stand for.
  
[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/jmh1 Julian Hess] agrees that PHP provides for pretty hellish programming.
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (When really desperate and focused.)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] better than Perl at least...
  
 
===PL/SQL===
 
===PL/SQL===
  
[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===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (the scripting language of choice)
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
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(the greatest language ever invented! If not the most useful)
  
 
===R===
 
===R===
  
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (it makes statistics fun!)
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] But not as good as [[Aaron Schwartz]]
  
[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===
  
[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)
  
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (the most beautiful language ever)
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===TI-BASIC===
  
===WC237 Microcode===
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[[Sean Barker '09]] (an exercise in pain)
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (well, at one point at least...)
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===WC3400 Microcode===
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Jing Cao Broke the phase 2 record
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[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Broke the pass/fail barrier.
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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===
  
[[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===
  
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Don't make me clipware you.)
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===Microsoft Paint===
  
[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===
  
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)
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===Adobe Photoshop===
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[[Sean Hayes]] (Decent skills)
  
 
===AppleWorks===
 
===AppleWorks===
  
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)
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==1337 |-|@><0R==
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[[Toby Hall]].  w00t
  
[[Jono Dowse '06]] (still uses it in drawing and painting mode. He is a 13-year Apple drawing veteran.)
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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 00:15, June 1, 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.)