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 nilved » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

Haskell is pretty old and I'm gonna use it until Idris is production-ready

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

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Post by Moto7451 » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

Another one for Perl. Web MVC, Shell scripts, and daemons galore :).

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

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Post by gwu78 » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

  assembly 
  apl (k4)
  forth (bootloader)  
  snobol (spitbol)
  C (small subset)
  sh (Almquist-like)
  sed (not GNU)
  nawk (do not use added functions such as strftime)
  execlineb

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

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Post by achileas » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

Perl, it is what we use for our ETL pipeline, and it works great for that.

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

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Post by svec » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

Lisp and C: for robotic control software.

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

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Post by danso » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

geebee wrote: post #146

danso wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still teach SQL, via SQLite, as a first language to students, even though in practice I do 90% of my data analysis through the command line or Pandas. But SQL is very direct and clear as a language, and the overhead of SQLite is...well, light. Making an index is just one more line of code that for many datasets, you run once and never touch again. What do you find simpler in terms of data querying and management?

I love sql myself. I'm not sure why I love it so much and other people hate it. Sometimes I think that coming up with reasons is just after the fact justification (do I really like it because it has a solid mathematical foundation in the relational calculus, or does that just sound like a good reason to say I like it)? Pandas is an excellent contribution to data analysis, but I gotta tell you, I was absolutely deligh…

I used to dislike it myself, and in the context of building within a framework like Rails, I'll defer to an ORM. But my appreciation for SQL deepened as I became a more experienced programmer and began valuing explicitness in code. The reason why I do most data work in Python is because most of my work is exploratory, and I need a language that is well-suited for gluing together services and non-analysis-specific functions. But when it comes to doing work in which time and consistency and portability is Key, SQL is my choice for structured data.

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

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Post by pacofvf » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

geebee wrote: post #70

SQL. If I had to pick a language that I'll use my entire career that's the one. It has been overused and underused, but always relevant.

my workflow with complex queries despite the fact the outcome is always the same: Write a SQL query to see if it works as supposed, use a query builder in another language, analyze the code and the query because it's not as fast as I would liked to, realize the entire code in another language would be faster if it were a stored procedure in SQL, write stored procedure, repeat.

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

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Post by mzs » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

paulrpotts wrote: post #118

mzs wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here but MPW Pascal with 68K Asm.

What, really? In 2017? Explain, please! You're deploying on 68K Macs?

not deployed on apple: http://inteng.fnal.gov/Integrated_Eng/irm/irmsoftware/IRMSof...

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

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Post by therealmarv » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

Taking a deep look into Lazarus/FreePascal/Object Pascal this year (because I can still code Pascal & VCL code in sleep nowadays). Want to see if it's good enough to develop a simple macOS, Linux and Windows application at the same time.

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

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Post by crystalPalace » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 6:26 PM UTC

paulrpotts wrote: post #121

dmcginty wrote: post #62

I really want to write something in 6502 assembly this year. I've read tutorials and played with it, but I've never used it to build a non-trivial program. I've also been wanting to build a NES emulator in common lisp, and this would be the perfect opportunity to pair the two projects.

Have you seen the game called Human Resource Machine? This is not actually a joke comment -- it teaches assembly language programming. Not 6502 specifically, but the fake architecture looks a lot like 6502. You work up through a set of more and more challenging assignments until you have to write a sort. I really enjoyed it and would consider it a great introduction to basically any assembly language.

I had never heard of Human Resource Machine but that reminded me of TIS-1000 which I highly recommend.