Posted on 09/21/2020 8:58:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Java was developed by Sun Microsystems.
Sun was acquired by Oracle.
Let me know when FORTRAN-77 makes a comeback and maybe I’ll come out of retirement. New programming languages come out way too often.
Yeah, I raised an eyebrow on their notion that C might be more difficult to learn than C++. That’s... well, no, it’s not.
Python is used a lot for web server applications.
“”If I were a programmer, I’d probably prefer to be maintaining some ancient language that entire city is dependent on me maintaining. Those languages never die.””
RPGILE has been very good to me.
True, but the quote was "originally developed". I don't think Oracle has developed anything of note this century. :-P They've been acquiring and looting companies at breakneck speed though.
Dilbert cartoon strip used to have a story line about the “legacy” computer in the basement that no one knew anything about but was critical to everything else they ran. It was hysterical.
Me too! :-) Last contract was on 2003. :-(
Real programmers code in Assembly. Or machine code.
Ahh... Cool!
Well, i know where u can go if u can stand the humidity in GA.
lol... You too??? wow
we should all 3 band together and get a government contract converting assembler into pseudo code.
There are 80 year old COBOL guys still working, because they’ve pulled them out of retirement.
Still, I don’t think I’d recommend someone spend any time learning COBOL.
A good software engineer can write FORTRAN in any language.
Readability score = 0
It’s right up there with herding cats.
One episode of the cartoon had Black Betty and Wally being hypno-regressed back to competency.
I’ve done some Python but mostly do Java.
What does Python do that Java doesn’t? Especially since I mainly use Spring Boot, writing Java apps is a snap, with so many mature libraries that do everything I need.
BAL was terrific. No surprises of the other high level languages.
I bet 99.999 pct of all developers cannot explain how AND’s, OR’s and XOR’s work even though they use them in all decision logic .
Give me Binary (HEX will do), or give me (insert unknown kiddie string interpretive language, build on top of 1's and 0's here)...;
Let me count the languages I’ve used/messed with:
FORTRAN
GOTRAN (on a university’s IBM 1620)
Dartmouth BASIC
1401 Autocoder
360/370 BAL
COBOL,
ALGOL,
PL/1
APL
C, C++
Javascript
Cold Fusion script
PL/SQL
T-SQL
Why so many? I’ve always had this archaic idea that if you couldn’t do it, you probably shouldn’t manage it. Of these languages, APL and PL/1, which were touted at the time as the be-all/end-all languages, were ones I glossed over as being too convoluted to use or spend time with. One language I never bothered with at all was MAD. I did spend a good amount of time with javascript and various SQL languages when jumping in to help the people I was managing.
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