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It's possible I will start to write C++ also.
Though I don't consider Fortran "old" as it has many shiny features.
I want to use Pascal. It was awesome to work on Turbo Pascal while I was a student in 90s.
Also, there is Lazarus which seems to be the FreePascal-alternative to Delphi. I took a look at it when inheriting a Delphi application at work, but it crashed on me a lot. Still, it's there.
Old programming languages don't die, they just slowly fade away. The oldest thing I periodically touch is VBA for Excel
I still get paid to program in Pick Basic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system ) which seems kind of unreal in 2017.
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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…
IF you start to think in a set orientation, SQL makes a lot more sense. If you try to think procedurally you will struggle with SQL.
ITT: everyone realizes how old most widely deployed languages are.
As I read through this thread, I'm wondering what the "new" programming languages are and specifically, which are being used in production.
Many folks have said it here but I'll say it again: Common Lisp. I have been using it professionally for 5+ years as a full-time employee at various companies. Some big-name ones, some smaller start-up ones. The mean Lisp team size has been around 4, but I did work on a project of 15 Lisp programmers. None of these projects were legacy code. Some were in places you wouldn't expect (embedded, multi-processor systems o…
>In every single case, we had no additional trouble hiring a Lisp or Lisp-capable programmer as compared to hiring for any other language, including Python Doesn't that imply an over-supply? I did my grad research on a highly specialized topic, involving plenty of math/physics. Then I worked in industry applying my skills for 4 years. Then I switched to programming - nothing related to my engineering degrees. This jo…
There are fewer pure research positions, and unless you are very good there is a leverage problem there because every year dozens of new grads come looking for essentially that job. Something to bear in mind if your desire is primarily to work in matlab/python/R on things that look a bit like your thesis did.
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As I read through this thread, I'm wondering what the "new" programming languages are and specifically, which are being used in production.
Swift, Rust, and Go are the current mainstream "new" programming languages.