I want to use Pascal. It was awesome to work on Turbo Pascal while I was a student in 90s.
Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
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#52Pascal/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.
Projects I know I'll need to heavily modify or work on for the foreseeable future, I bring forward into Lazarus. Lazarus has quite a bit of activity in its community.
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#53I spent Xmas break learning exactly how much I could do with Bash! There's no escaping an OS-solution to OS-problem when app-in-language-of-choice doesn't have a standard library call for an OS-need. I may be learning AWK or C in the near future.
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#54C. C++. Python. sh. Awk.
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#55Writing a brand new Mac app for myself, using Objective-C instead of Swift. So far it's a breeze. Yes I used Swift for a while, and it sure feels all academic and all, but meh, ObjC gets the job done just fine for me.
Objective C will always have room in my heart, but I'll never go back to it. There's too much .h ceremony.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lots and lots of C for me too. A huge pile of legacy business software which is still being extended to do new stuff.
My only real gripe with C is that you have to write your own functions/macros (or use someone else's) to make dealing with strings intuitive. The stdlib is perfectly fine from an algorithmic standpoint, but I always have to look up every string function's manpage, every single time I use them.
Check out https://github.com/antirez/sds
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#57I'm still using VB6 which was released in mid 1998 (19 years old in 2017)
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#58Siemens Step5 (for maintaining an installed base of S5 PLCs - the most indestructible piece of computing hardware ever designed, IMHO.)
Also, some work in MPASM (Assembly for the Microchip PIC series of microcontrollers - same reason)
Edit: I am not sure just when S5 got introduced, but I've got installation media - on 5.25" floppies - for CP/M in my office. Made in West Germany.
That old.
Luckily, the IDE has also been ported to more contemporary operating systems.
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#59Fortran and Holy C.
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#60Pascal/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.
That's funny because Anders Hejlsberg was the chief architect of both Delphi and C#.