Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

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Post by tbirrell » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

uses PHP and JS

Those aren't old enough to count, I guess

googles age of PHP

Holy crap! PHP is almost 23 years old. Probably still not considered "old" though...

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#32

Post by velebak » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

Java and Python

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#33

Post by sidlls » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

For my day job, Python (it's 25, that's old) mostly. Primarily as the machine learning platform (all of it, from models to infrastructure) for the products my team develops for the company.

For my spare time work mostly Fortran, C and C++ qualify as old languages I'll be using. These I use to dabble in research (physics) more for fun than anything else.

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

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Post by hprotagonist » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

I do scientific computing in academia.

Secretly, it's just fortran all the way down, and LaTeX for document preparation.

Piled on top of that is a fair amount of matlab, simulink, and python.

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#35

Post by PeCaN » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:05 PM UTC

noonespecial wrote: post #7

Pascal/Delphi Before there was an internet of lightbulbs and smoke detectors, there was an internet of industrial process things. And they used windows 2000 and Delphi. They still do.

There are still a bunch of modern Windows desktop applications written in Delphi and C++Builder – I work on one of them. ^_^

I really like Delphi actually. It's a shame Embarcadero doesn't really seem to care about it.

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#36

Post by anujdeshpande » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

C

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#37

Post by haroldp » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

bbarn wrote: post #22

"classic" asp. Still have some crappy legacy pdf generation code no one is willing to invest the time to rewrite into here. Fortunately that's all of an update a year or so.

I know that pain.

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#38

Post by arc_of_descent » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

  - Perl
  - HTML (old?)

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#39

Post by sidlls » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

angry_shitlord wrote: post #29

They all are "old". If it's new it's probably some wired buggy and failing combination of C Lisp and Forth.

I don't think either Go or Rust qualify as "buggy" or "failing." They aren't "old" in my view. And I find Rust more interesting than C or C++ these days. Although C++17 looks nice.

Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

#40

Post by PeCaN » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

C++98 with a few C++11 features for work (our compiler is not really C++11 compliant at all, but it does have move semantics).

Ada for fun, though I'd say Ada 2012 is a bit like C++11 in terms of “basically a new language”. People do seem to have a perception of Ada as ‘old’, though I'm not sure why (it is, by my account, more ‘modern’ than, say, Go – actually, it's not unlike Go with a nice generics system).