Posted on 04/17/2017 10:59:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
MacOS/Linux. MS is going heavy into other OS’s. Check out Xmarin...
Anything beats Objective-C.
C
No contest. It is the benchmark. All other languages are measured against C. Other languages come and go.
Java is declining
C++ is declining in popularity, but not for system programming.
The rest of the pack are specialized and fight over the scraps.
C
Back in the 80's I was writing COBOL by the mile (verbose lang.)and arguing with CPF on an IBM System/38. Ended up getting CPF error messages in my dreams.
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And of course, "Eliza" was written in SNOBOL.
...C# 7.0 is expected in 2017 and will enhance an already excellent language. Microsoft surprised everyone when they introduced the open source Visual Studio Code editor and .Net Core. Both of these run on Linux, Windows and macOS...
That’s interesting.
The Java Language or the JDK?
Fortran was a static language, and the benefits of dynamic programming made it obsolete. For the longest time, if a computer company wanted to sell to the Feds, it had to have a Fortran compiler. And since the Federal Gub'mint was the largest purchaser at the time...
In school, Fortran dominated, but the last two years were mostly the highly structured Pascal. Period.
SCRATCH is a lot of fun!
SOAP II, GEMAP, Autocoder and then on to some structured languages like Cobol and SDL. SDL was in inhouse systems development language specifically designed for stack oriented hardware. Kinda was the leading edge in the early 80s.
Last big project was simulating a mainframe on a powerful PC. Hhhmmm ok, C++. Picked it up in a week or so. My major contributions was a cache algorithm that replaced Microsoft. Since our simulation software controlled EVERY aspect of the PC, not Microsoft, it needed a cache. My 2nd version was measurably faster/more efficient than Microsoft’s. Time to retire.
Never went ANYWHERE without a flow chart in my pocket.
vikingd00d:
And real programmers use plug boards!
I still miss RPG (first love etc etc).
SeekAndFind:
interesting, thanks.
I notice that a lot of folks in this thread are/were FORTRAN programmers. I used to program in it too ( over 30 years ago, FORTRAN 77 was my last gig on that language ).
I have since moved on...
I’m surprised nobody misses COBOL at all. :)
If you’ve an assembly language background you may wish to look at “C” and embedded software devices (e.g. micro-controller boards, Raspberry Pi, etc.)
“java is declining” ???
...I see no evidence of that, especially considering that it’s the language of Android applications.
From an embedded C developer.
FORTRAN, COBOL, JOVIAL, SNOBOL, APL, COMPASS, SWAC input instructions...
Like a 407!!!!
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