I now know enough to be a troll in this thread. Ain't gonna do it...got to restrain myself...SOMEBODY STOP ME!
Enjoy,
Rich P
Enjoy,
Rich P
I learned Lisp in a class - not my cup of tea... I programmed a little APL on a dedicated IBM PC in high school; yep a weird language. Never did ADA but reviewed it in ACM material. It seemed a little too “large” for me.I started with Fortan 4 on punch cards.
Anyone here do Lisp?
How about APL? That was a really freaky thing.
ADA anyone? I did some military stuff in that.
C# is for developers.
Programmers work in C.
C++ is just a handy way of organizing and rapid developing good C code.
I'm going to allow a little bit of trolling just to see where it takes us.I now know enough to be a troll in this thread. Ain't gonna do it...got to restrain myself...SOMEBODY STOP ME!
Enjoy,
Rich P
I actually programmed in machine language. Once. In school. Then there was a four bit "microprocessor" we made in a lab on breadboards with tons of TTL chips and spaghetti wire wrap. Sixteen instructions and not a lot of "memory". The "display" was a pair of seven segment LED numbers. When I set up this poll I was reluctant to include Assembly cuz I thought nobody does it except hard core video compression guys, etc. I'm glad I kept it in.Assembly language is the most honest language
I was programming 10 years before windows or the internet came out
Now I program embedded C and C++
None of that OOP crap
Ditto, circa 1985 or so (age 12 via a TRS-80...) just to see if I could. By the time I finished entering a few hundred lines of code, straining my eyes (and tolerance) debugging it, and finally got it to half-ass compile and run correctly, I threw up my hands, cursed the programming gods, and never looked in the direction of code again until a couple of decades or so later where I circumstantially had to pass a class in COBOL so as to obtain my CIS degree. It's amazing the havoc a misplaced/erroneously typed "." or "/" can create... How some of you guys and gals do this for a living, much less a hobby, never fails to amaze me. For some mysterious reason, Python keeps whispering in my ear to pick up a book and give it a shot. It just something about objects, class inheritance, and polymorphism that keeps me backing away from the keyboard.I actually programmed in machine language. Once.
Ha! Can’t blame you for that last sentence.Ditto, circa 1985 or so (age 12 via a TRS-80...) just to see if I could. By the time I finished entering a few hundred lines of code, straining my eyes (and tolerance) debugging it, and finally got it to half-ass compile and run correctly, I threw up my hands, cursed the programming gods, and never looked in the direction of code again until a couple of decades or so later where I circumstantially had to pass a class in COBOL so as to obtain my CIS degree. It's amazing the havoc a misplaced/erroneously typed "." or "/" can create... How some of you guys and gals do this for a living, much less a hobby, never fails to amaze me. For some mysterious reason, Python keeps whispering in my ear to pick up a book and give it a shot. It just something about objects, class inheritance, and polymorphism that keeps me backing away from the keyboard.
I just added a grudging vote for Python. My only involvement up until recently was to write library stuff in C (.so, .dll) that some sluggish section of a python utility "imported" for speed. As a language it seems arbitrary and capricious and cobbled together, with silly terminology like "tuple" and "dict" (who's gonna wanna say "dict" at the workplace?). IMHO memory management IS programming. OTOH it's taken over from Matlab and IDL the "science" market and there's a ton of stuff out there already written. I'm starting to like it for what it is.For some mysterious reason, Python keeps whispering in my ear to pick up a book and give it a shot. It just something about objects, class inheritance, and polymorphism that keeps me backing away from the keyboard.
All with a whopping 16 KB of internal RAM accompanied by a cartidge slot for additional programs... Here's the model I received for Christmas in '85:Then various Basic on original IBM PCs and RS TRS 80s, ... Chip