C - Wanted to get into some embedded programming. I was going to do some Rust for this, but I figure I might as well learn some C as well.
Bash - I already know some Bash, but I want to become a bash guru.
Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
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#132Powerbuilder!!!!
We have a bunch of mission critical desktop application that run on Powerbuilder.
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#133ES6
Everybody is es7 and es latest. I feel old.
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#134vba/excel/sql for reporting automation.
VBA/MS Access - active databases for several clients.
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#135COBOL, definitely COBOL
Yeah me too. I can't wait to rewrite our code base in Java (not even being sarcastic), but at least we will be able to make our own objects and have recursion! Yay!
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#136C/C++ for the usual embedded and backend stuff. And a tiny bit of legit COBOL, because our orginization is married or perhaps chained to it. The COBOL code is mostly for UI work, sort of a VisualCOBOL, as well as legacy reports.
And of course the usual Linux scripters: bash, awk, sed, etc.
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#137Probably an APL-like language like K+
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#138Perl 5, I have been using it in Financial Services for the past 12 years. It is still a workhorse when it comes to reporting. Many large banks still use it, but most don't advertise it. I used it at places like Intel back in 1999. It really is a versatile language.
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#139bash (27 years) - I tend to write for bash 3 and up, totally happy for my scripts to not work on Bourne shell
powershell (11 years) - basically just a better version of bash with 'select' and 'where' replacing scraping for text with grep/sed/awk
javascript (21 years) - finally ES5 and 6 have added some stupidly obvious things like multiline strings, array.includes(), destructuring, etc - it's actually a pretty good language now.
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#140Perl, sh, awk, sed, C, Fortran. There's a freedom in not chasing down all the shiny new things.
What do you do with that stack? I've used all of those at work as well, but the C/Fortran part is just debugging or pulling the logic for what the system is doing.