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My Favorite Languages
Language	Proficiency
C	Average
C++	Novice
Fortran	Good
Java	Rusty but still fairly good
JavaScript	Novice
Python	Advanced
R	Good
SQL	Good

I am a statistician, currently working in the public health sector, in France.

On Rosetta Code, I am using this account since 2017-08-07. I have previously used the following accounts, among others:

Arbautjc: 2013-02-07 to 2017-06-04
Capra Hircus: 2012-08-16 to 2012-09-14
Nochnix: 2012-01-18 to 2012-08-11
Toucan: 2010-02-27 to 2011-11-22

Unless specified otherwise, I hereby release all my contributions to Rosetta Code under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, and the MIT License, whichever is more fit to the user's intent.

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 I am a statistician, currently working in the public health sector, in France.
-A few words about the languages I currently use or have used in the past:
-* I have used C for years, first with Turbo C++ around 1997, then with GCC, and lately a bit with Visual C++ and Pelles C. However, I never had the motivation to do more than relatively short programs with it, so I still consider myself a beginner. Today I mainly use it for functions I need to speed up in interpreted languages, or together with Fortran.
-* I have a love/hate relationship with C++: while I think TMP is insane, I have used the language on occasions to simplify and speed up C stuff. I'm still not sure I like it.
-* I had a tiny introduction in University in 2001, but I have really started with Fortran rather lately, in 2009. However, I have learned it quite deeply, from Fortran 77 to the latest revisions. I currently use the compilers from Intel and Absoft.
-* I used Java a lot during my academic studies for CS projects, with versions 1.3 to 5. After a long break (~10 years), I have started using it again by the end of 2018, first with Java 8, now Java 11.
-* I have used Mathematica since 2009 or 2010, but much more since 2018. Very useful, without surprise, for maths and applications.
-* I started with Python around 2002 on a Mac laptop with OS9, and it has been my favorite language since then, for all kinds of task, from discrete and numerical math to utilities. It's also very useful for data cleaning and basic statistics. For more advanced statistics I prefer Stata and R though.
-* I initially learned R in University around 2003, but really got to work with it since 2015.
-* I also learned SAS in University around 2003, and use it for work since 2008. Not that I really like it, but it is mandatory for some tasks.
-* I am learning Stata since august 2017.
-* I have used Excel since Office 97, but I really started with VBA in 2014, almost exclusively within Excel.
-* Among the other languages I have used to some extent, the most notable are MATLAB and Scilab (my main languages in University for numerical analysis courses), and x86 assembly, for which I still have a reading knowledge (to check compiler output). My first programming language on a computer was QBasic, in 1996, followed shortly by Turbo C++ and Delphi.
-* Other language I have used quite a bit: Octave, Pascal (TP, Delphi, Free Pascal), Basic (many flavors : gwbasic, bwbasic, Chipmunk Basic, Metal Basic, QB, VB, Free Basic, Real Basic, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, GFA Basic, True Basic), Ada, Common Lisp, Scheme, Forth (several variants including HP48 RPN and WinForth, and one that I coded in Java for a CS project), Caml (both the Caml-Light variant and the newer Objective Caml), GAP, Maxima, Maple, Ruby, SQL, and the macro language of Lotus 1-2-3. And just a sip of Julia, MuPad, Awk, Tcl, Perl, JavaScript, VB.NET, C#, F#, REXX, COBOL, JCL (the bare minimum to run some Fortran and SAS tasks on an IBM mainframe), J (yuck!), AppleScript. And a "visual language" that I loved: Mathcad.
-* Languages I ''really'' don't like: APL and J (unreadable).
-* Languages I wish I could use a bit, or more: JavaScript (useful in my domain for data visualization), Julia (looks promising), Gauss (for econometrics), Troll (used for economic models), COBOL & PL/I (out of curiosity).
 On Rosetta Code, I am using this account since 2017-08-07. I have previously used the following accounts, among others: