What programming Language do you like the most?

[gotaway]

I had a short stint (holiday work as a student) doing REXX. Never had a ‘need’ to go back to it

 

[greg_SA]

Lmao now that's a PTSD flashback from Uni that I did not need.

We use it daily for FPGA development.

 

[HermeticAnarchist]

What COBOL was it running on?

I did COBOL-85 in my 1st and 2nd year (2000, 2001). It was also the one subject I took that had the longest exam - a 5 hour debug exam at the end of 2nd year.

While I initially found COBOL to be super retarded, what with its PIC for drawing a picture of the variable - it later made a lot more sense to me. Especially once I started looking at invoices and statement and I could start to see the Data Division in my head

It's still running COBOL v6 on a mainframe.

 

[HermeticAnarchist]

They need to hire better devs.

You could be right. Personally, I think the architect is the problem.

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

I am one of those rare people who like VBA.

The one I liked the least was Pascal, I couldn’t figure it out.
I did like Delphi though.
I did cobol years ago, it wasn’t too difficult, but was boring.

But delphi was pascal but with built in oop plus a few other features???

 

[Rouxenator]

But delphi was pascal but with built in oop plus a few other features???

I knew a guy in high school that used Units in Pascal to go as close as you can to OOP.

 

[cguy]

I knew a guy in high school that used Units in Pascal to go as close as you can to OOP.

Turbo Pascal 5.5 introduce native OOP syntax/support in 1989.

 

[Hamster]

C# with Core

Interesting...

 

[AdrianH]

I had to do some BAT file programming late last year!

It was ****

 

[kolaval]

I must say .net8 is lekke.
Created and deployed a worker service with minimal effort.
Running on Ubuntu with no issues and since it's self contained there's no installing or maintaining .net on the servers.

 

[Rouxenator]

I had to do some BAT file programming late last year!

It was ****

Are you referring to batch files with their IF ERRORLEVEL and all that?

 

[AdrianH]

Are you referring to batch files with their IF ERRORLEVEL and all that?

That's it LOL

Even loaded and parsed CSV. What s ball ache it was.

 

[AdrianH]

I must say .net8 is lekke.
Created and deployed a worker service with minimal effort.
Running on Ubuntu with no issues and since it's self contained there's no installing or maintaining .net on the servers.

.Net is my fav.

We have also started using. Net 8 going forward now, have a couple .Net 6 and .Net 7 projects to update. Hopefully it's a simple task.

 

[_kabal_]

I must say .net8 is lekke.
Created and deployed a worker service with minimal effort.
Running on Ubuntu with no issues and since it's self contained there's no installing or maintaining .net on the servers.

It's by FAR the best statically typed (web) framework that is easy to work on/understand/deploy

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

But delphi was pascal but with built in oop plus a few other features???

@MagNorthDigital ??

 

[gotaway]

Clarion for DOS, anybody?

 

[Rouxenator]

That's it LOL

Even loaded and parsed CSV. What s ball ache it was.

I taught myself that from the MS-DOS 6.22 manual that came with our 486 PC in 1995.

Norton Utilities also had the batch extender (be.exe) that could do some fancy stuff.

 

[Spacerat]

I had to do some BAT file programming late last year!

It was ****

in my last project a year ago i also had to do some .bat programming for a large financial company. It sucked. Terrible to debug. I could not deploy .exe as they wanted to see what it was doing. Fair point. And it sucked…

 

[cguy]

in my last project a year ago i also had to do some .bat programming for a large financial company. It sucked. Terrible to debug. I could not deploy .exe as they wanted to see what it was doing. Fair point. And it sucked…

Couldn’t you have used Python?

 

[AdrianH]

Couldn’t you have used Python?

Where's the challenge in that?