Until recently wrote a lot of Perl 5 (still very popular in bioinfomatics).
Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
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#12Fortran is quite heavily used in computational science domain. Both the "old" (F66, F77, F90) and the new modern F2003, F2008, F2018. and Yes, (modern) Fortran feeds my family daily (along with many other computational tools and skills). Modern Fortran is a bliss. The parallel features of it are quite advanced comparable to advanced modern MPI capabilities, yet with an extremely intuitive and simple "Coarray" syntax.…
I also use Fortran daily but I see more and more people/organizations try to move out of it. What language they move to remains to be seen, however the recent efforts to modernise Fortran, create a standard library may yet breathe new life into it.
Re: Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
#13The usual stuff (SQL, ksh, etc) and COBOL.
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#14i honestly like batch and bash files haha
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#15Not a language per se, but I'm on a Qt based distro this summer, and I was pleasantly surprised to see what's new in 6.0. Qt is ancient, ubiquitous. We use it everyday without realizing it. But now it's got its own IDE, UI editor. And supports a Vulkan rendering backend ;)
Re: Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
#16VBA, VBScript, VB6, VB.NET Maybe not “old” but most of those are solid legacy.
VB6 is definitely old
Re: Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
#17Maybe I'll come off as a youngin' with this one, but PHP. I honestly really enjoy it. There are some quirks and syntax I don't particularly like, but overall, using PHP in a server setting isn't bad at all. I always heard people talk down on it in college, but those people probably never used it either. PHP by day and Rust by night is a nice combo honestly. Pretty different, but it gives some variety.
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#18The oldest stuff I use regularly at work would be Bash, Java, and Groovy. And then one specific utility stands out as something I use a lot, despite its age: sed. I use sed all over the place in scripts to inject values into config files as part of scripts.
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#19.NET Compact Framework 3.5. Might not sound that old, but it's only supported in Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft keeps trying to kill it off, but the manufacturer I support is still shipping products using it.
Re: Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
#20VBA, VBScript, VB6, VB.NET Maybe not “old” but most of those are solid legacy.
Yup... I have to support VBScript for one of our digital signage platforms. Always a joy...