12 Oct 18
@russ saidPerhaps, that is my problem. I love the tools more than the job.
A bit like describing my favourite hammer - depends on the job. 🙂
But if the whole world went for Swift, I wouldn't mind too much.
(Still love PHP for traditional web stuff though.)
I really hate Visual Basic.
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12 Oct 18
C. Not C++, not C-flat, just plain C. And failing that, good old Sinclair Basic.
What I don't hold with is proprietary languages owned by multinationals like Google, Microsoft or Apple. Can't trust 'em. Ones designed by a government committee - or, shudder and wince, the military - are, of course, out of the question.
I have a feeling I'd like Lua if I allowed myself the leisure to get into it. And I did like Prolog in principle, but never found a real-world use for it.
12 Oct 18
@shallow-blue saidC++ sucked. It was a great example of how *not* to do an object-oriented language.
C. Not C++, not C-flat, just plain C. And failing that, good old Sinclair Basic.
What I don't hold with is proprietary languages owned by multinationals like Google, Microsoft or Apple. Can't trust 'em. Ones designed by a government committee - or, shudder and wince, the military - are, of course, out of the question.
I have a feeling I'd like Lua if I allowed mys ...[text shortened]... leisure to get into it. And I did like Prolog in principle, but never found a real-world use for it.
But, bless the creator for it, anyway...so that future OO languages could get better...
14 Oct 18
@benjamin-barker saidMust be very sharp! Since I am involved with semiconductor manufacturing machines, I'll stick with Fortran. Great for that, not very good to make a chess program though😉
@BigDoggProblem
I've recently designed a restful API using C# which I found to be a joy!
14 Oct 18
@bigdoggproblem saidPerl was what I used most often, but now I don't script any more, so have not written any code in some time.
Mine's Python ... what do others like?
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15 Oct 18
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@bigdoggproblem saidSucked? It's only gained more suckage over the years! And more, and more... it's now a monstrosity of decades of accreted suckage.
C++ sucked. It was a great example of how *not* to do an object-oriented language.
But, bless the creator for it, anyway...so that future OO languages could get better...
As for blessing Bjarne... good OO languages (including Objective-C) existed before C++. I'd rather thank the people behind Simula and Smalltalk. Even better, the people who did OO-style programming as just one of many techniques for maintaining program structure in pre-OO languages.
(As an amusing, unrelated observation: this site's shortening of my post in your quotation seems only to have lengthened it...)
18 Oct 18
@bigdoggproblem saidAssembly language for all the hours of joy I've had trying to work out wtf the dratted bit of code I wrote six months earlier actually does.
Mine's Python ... what do others like?
30 Oct 18
@deepthought saidRight...unless you made a separate document, there was no comments possible.
Assembly language for all the hours of joy I've had trying to work out wtf the dratted bit of code I wrote six months earlier actually does.
I remember learning assembly language. Fortunately, by that time, there was C for writing actual programs. The only assembly language programs I ever wrote were academic assignments.
It was useful for understanding what higher level languages actually do, at least.
31 Oct 18
@bigdoggproblem saidTrue for me too.
The only assembly language programs I ever wrote were academic assignments.
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@russ saidThe first computer I had, a Nascom, buildt around a Z80, didn't have space for an assembler. I coded everything directly in machine code.
True for me too.
One of my programs were a MasterMind game. Both CodeMaker side and CodeBreaker.
Later, on a PC, I wrote a crossword generator in Assembler, for Intel 8086 processor.
Those were the days... (Sigh)