I am currently working for Erudify..
I did my MS (in CS) at EPFL, and have graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Prior to that, my formative schooling years were spent in St. Dominic Savio College, in Lucknow.
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Favourites and not-so-favourites: I have seen development on many scales on both windows as well as Linux platforms and have come to have favourites depending on the nature of the task I am out to perform.
| Programming competitions : | Java/C/C++ | Based on need of BigInteger , speed or nothing in particular. |
|---|---|---|
| Data crunching : | R, SQL, perl | In that order |
| Scripting : | Perl | Portable, and a Swiss army knife |
| Text processing : | Perl, Vim, (some rare cases, awk) | |
| Large projects : | Java | Because of the IDE and portability |
| GUI programming : | Java, Python | Netbeans visual editor and Tcl/Tk respectively. |
| Prototyping : | Python | For its aesthetics |
| Editing : | Vim | Reason? |
| VCS : | bzr, SVN | Ease of use. |