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Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
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#42Pascal/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.
"Before there was an internet of lightbulbs and smoke detectors"
Hahaha. That was good.
Delphi is used heavily at my company to process millions of transactions a day, in the credit card industry.
I myself am a C# developer though. But I respect Delphi's performance and relatively clean syntax.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#43Pascal/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.
"Before there was an internet of lightbulbs and smoke detectors"
Hahaha. That was good.
Delphi is used heavily at my company to process millions of transactions a day, in the credit card industry.
I myself am a C# developer though. But I respect Delphi's performance and relatively clean syntax.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#44Lisp. That's the only old language I use.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#45Make.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#46- sh (I really don't use bash features in scripting) - awk - perl - sed, if that counts as language. It's funny that a course that I took in university almost 29 years ago, for learning the use of Unix scripting tools, is one of the most useful learning experiences in my daily work today - even if my job is not really a programmer. But very often I see colleagues (project managers, architects etc) struggle with proce…
As always there's a relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/519/
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#47Perl. MVC web app and TCP server stack for IoT devices, task queue, job scheduler and associated scripts.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#48Depends what you mean by "old". I'm mainly using C# and that is (somewhat surprisingly) 17 years old [1]. I still think of it as a shiny new thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)...
To be fair a lot of really useful C# features came way after that, like LINQ, Async/Await, type inference, etc
For some historical reference:
Generics came with C# 2.0 in November 2005 (12 years old)
LINQ came with C# 3.0 in November 2007 (9 years old)
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#49Pascal/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.
Same here but MPW Pascal with 68K Asm.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#50- bash
- Python (esp. Django, which is for some reason uncool)
I also have this weird desire to jump back into C, just to refresh myself.