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#81
Emacs Lisp. I want to port all my remaining sh awk and perl stuff to it, and I'll havee some time to do that in the coming weeks.

Also, m4. I use it together with awk and bmake for a couple websites. I plan to port awk scripts to sth. else though, I keep forgetting awk.

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

#82

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...

JS is actually 21 now. According to wiki, it was developed under codename "Mocha" and shipped with Netscape Navigator 2.0. [1] "May 23, 1995" Personally, I'm pretty sure the version of "JS" when it was first released and more modern JS share very little other than logic and symbology, I think that can be said for many programming languages.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

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

#83

Most of my work is in C++, which is almost 35 years old. By far the best choice of language for cross-platform, client application development, especially C++11/C++14, which bring modern language features (e.g. lambdas, futures, etc) with all the original benefits of the language.

I used to write in a pre-11 style. When I got my first job where everyone was using all the hot new features, my mind was blown and my life quality doubled.

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

#90
C (I hate C++)

assembler (various) (I've even learned x86_64 well after being a RISC aficionado, it's actually kinda neat)

sed

bash

LaTex

I used to use YACC/LEX but that's been replaced with ANTLR for awhile now.

What language am I starting to use? Rust and R.

I wrote something in PERL once but when I woke up the next day I couldn't really read it. So that was that.

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