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I use a language originally called MUMPS, with the alternate name of M, which is the core language in Cache Object Script. I use it because it has features that are still not (really) included in more "modern" languages, because it is actively used in niche markets, and because I've used it for 34 years, so I have a lot of experience in it and tools written in it. It is incredibly terse, which allows for use in tight…
Pascal - still use it today. I started with Turbo Pascal 3.0, went through several versions of Borland Pascal (DOS and Windows), several versions of Delphi, and am now using FreePascal. I do most of my work on Linux nowadays. Pascal still gets everything done and after 20+ years I am really fluent in it. Did a little bit of Javascript with Node.js, also looked at Golang. While I did like some aspects of them, there w…
Holy cow! I used Pascal at college about 16 years ago. I never thought I would see it used in the wild, especially in 2016. Nicely done!
Interesting blog post from last year on someone's experiences developing an application in Object Pascal: http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-...
Free Pascal itself: http://www.freepascal.org/
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"He writes bank software. In BASIC. For forty years. At the same company" I would have gone insane :)
He didn't say his father was still sane ;-)
And yet he's more sane than me. He's a funny fellow.
My dad uses and has used BASIC. He's not a teacher, nor a hobbyist. He writes bank software. In BASIC. For forty years. At the same company. UBS, Bank of China, and other names all run this massive million(s)-line BASIC codebase, that he almost singlehandedly wrote, on minicomputers[1] powered by OpenVMS. With it, according to my father, they process billion dollars worth of transactions and other facets of their bus…
I admin/dev on an old LDMud, which means the "game" is written in LPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPC_(programming_language) Perhaps not a terribly interesting addition to your list, since the reason is obvious: I keep using it because it's the language the game is written in. That said, I'll play along and discuss what I like about the language: One of the fun things about working on an LDMud or in LPC is that th…
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Unfortunately I'm absolutely serious. JavaScript is a farcical joke, yet no one's laughing.
try typescript, if you haven't already, its very nice. Doesn't help with the browser part unfortunately, but at least gets rid of the javascript oddities.
Perl and C here mostly. C89, that is. Both are widely used languages, just not in the startup space. a lot of our stuff is built on those languages so it wouldn't make sense to rewrite a lot of the stuff at this point unless there was a business case for it.
So I'm not alone :) Perl and C everyday ;)
Prolog. It fits my brain.
I predominantly work in Perl 5, which probably isn't quite to the point of being something one can write off completely as out of the spotlight. And, I'm launching a new thing soon which, despite having looked at a number of alternatives, will likely also be in Perl. Familiarity and a big ecosystem that I'm already familiar with is a pretty big win. I happen to work in the systems management space, which was long dom…