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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
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix===Befunge===08slh Son Ho] (I make things crash)
Steve Winslow [[Arjun Narayan '0410]] Not good. Not good.
[[Brent YorgeyJeff Marsceill '08]] '04
===C===[[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] gdb is your friend!
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04===Bash===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah/cj1 Chuan Ji]:(){:|:&};:
[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors===Befunge===
===Haskell===
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)===C===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix===Hypertalk===09ras Rahul Shah] (is pretty much the God of C, but mostly because C stands for medioCre)
[[Alan CordovaJing Cao]] Booyah!Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix===Java===08xjh Jerry He] Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney[Arjun Narayan '10] (disgusting)] Hello world only
[http://wsoAndrew Triska '10 writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)
[[Brent YorgeyJeff Marsceill '08]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung/qz1 Qiao Zhang'13] (not bad either.)heap allocators, garbage collectors, and painful debugging!
===JavaScriptC++===[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/cj1 Chuan Ji] How do I deal with memory leaks? 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] (just a pinch)I use smart pointers.
===LabVIEWHaskell===
Joe Shoer '06 (though he's ashamed to admit he knows such a stupid language)[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] tentatively agrees
Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT a stupid language! Three cheers for graphical programming!)[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/abs1 Antal Spector-Zabusky] <code>:: [Either FreeTime Deadline] -> [Program]</code>
===LaTeXHypertalk===
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel KleinAlan Cordova]] (too good for word processing)Booyah!
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word)==Java===
[[Diana Davis http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] will always be a beginner in this language. Just don'07]] (infinitely superior to anything else)t get it.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon10arn Arjun Narayan] (It's pretty frickin sweet)Will always be in love with this one.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle[Jeff Marsceill '08]] (Offers TeX services for $10/hr.)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung[Sean Barker '09]] (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 knows too many steps. But if she ever decided aesthetics were worth everything and anything, she'd be all up ons for chem reports TeX-edof the libraries by heart.)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08nv Nela Vukmirovic] thinks it's not worth the pain.==LabVIEW===
[[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.===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
(a must-learn for any physics major)
===PARI/GP===Math majors can do it too.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates sunmi yang '06] 08 (For a number theoretic software called [http://pari.it's my math.u-bordeaux.fr/ PARI]; similar to Cthesis, so there, Joe)
===PerlObjective C===
[http:===PARI//wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unixGP===06cks Kai Steverson] (competent)
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)==Perl===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao/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"] (kind of)
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH)===PHP===
[[Bartley Tablante '07]http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang](sort of)
===PHP===[[Arjun Narayan '10]] 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) [http://wsobetter than Perl at least.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (When really desperate and focused.)
===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]
===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===
 
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)
===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===
[[Jonathan Landsman==1337 |Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)-|@><0R==
[[Jono Dowse '06Toby Hall]] (still uses it in drawing and painting mode. He is a 13-year Apple drawing veteran.) w00t
[[Laurie BrinkTed Wiles]] sort-of-(Ted is an amazing hacker and programmer. It isn'05 (disputes that this t uncommon for his digg.com articles to yield over 250 diggs in one day. He also is actually passionate about his art and has plans to do a "computer skill," seeing as the charming thing about AppleWorks thesis senior year that allows him to reinterpret famous art works completely through graphic design software. He is that it's infinitely more user-friendly and intuitive than Microsoft Officealso very good at hacking.)
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