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Java and C#, with a bit of (MS)SQL and ASP.NET and a smattering of VBA and ASP at work. None are what I would consider "old". For fun, though, there's QB64's implementation of QuickBasic. I also have my old 8088 up and running again, and GW-Basic and ASM there. I started with GW-Basic when I was about 4 years old on that old 8088. Two 5.25" drives, no HD, 640k RAM and a "Turbo" button. What's not to like? Co-worker i…
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…
Are there resources you'd recommend for finding jobs in CL ?
Googling, LinkedIn searching helps.
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…
Slime + emacs for your environment?
Thankfully we have written gobs of Python to do most of the data management, multiphysics coupling, multiobjective optimization, etc. so it's really not too bad.
ATLAS[2]: an utterly repulsive, "self-documenting" language designed specifically for test applications, which has somehow managed to outlive the demise of its guiding IEEE standards committee to the dismay of many a aspiring young engineer. Paradigms include 20+ token statements as a sensible method to toggle a switch best described as abusive by certain alumni of aforementioned committee; proliferation of subsets which aren't even notionally interoperable because it makes people feel special; and nerfing canonical features related to trivial GPIO control only to adopt a proprietary language such as...
L200[3]: because languages are always fun when comma delimiters are strictly optional most of the time, and it's easier to metaprogram an application than to actually write it. Build/runtime/debug environment is also fun when it's technically an obsolete filesystem emulator executed by an obsolete OS running on an obsolete hardware architecture whose performance[4] pales in comparison to a 1st generation RPi.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIGITAL_Command_Language
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviated_Test_Language_for_...
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You know, modern Fortran isn't awful. Fortran 77 code however, is frighteningly ugly to look at.
IMO, it's more than not awful , it's great! I wish I had picked it up sooner as a mid-level language for mathematical and scientific computing (over C++). Additionally, you can connect Fortran to Python dead simple with `f2py`.
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I am working on 20 years old codebase that runs accounting, warehouse management, time tracking, invoicing and whatnot monster that power most of the roofing companies in Austria. It is still Delphi 5 + Paradox, developed on Windows XP (I run it from VM on Mac), but work on modern Windows as well. Networking is a bit of problem, but nothing we can't deal with. On the other side, I don't think that Delphi/Pascal is de…
Not unsurprisingly, I'd much recommend getting rid of Paradox. For my projects (several 100KLOCs, most of it DB-related) I relatively easily migrated to Firebird with IBObjects ( http://www.ibobjects.com – not affiliated), both of which have been a major success.
Given the complexity of project and our budget it will have to stay.