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For C++ I think Qt is pretty reasonable, also the Unreal Engine.
I'm using Java at work at the moment (Google Web Toolkit mainly, and learning it on the fly), but feeling the love in there. Some things are crazy (enums :)), others looked strange at the begining (dependency injection), but I really like the interface / class split - the interface "Set" vs the implementation "HashSet" (or something else).
We should also consider that a lot of popular interpreted languages -- Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript -- are implemented in 'boring' C/C++. Abstraction is a beautiful thing, but we should not forget our roots!
After starting to learn pure C myself, I have to agree.
The following things are green;
trees grass moss apples ...
I once watched a video about languages by I believe the designer of F# (could be wrong). He talked about a graph with a horizontal axis measuring "elegance". On the right hand end is your highly elegant mostly functional languages. On the left hand side are the rugged languages like C++ very few people would call it elegant. However on the vertical axis is Utility. on the bottom are "not very useful at all", and at t…
This may be the result of survivor bias. Of course there are also non-elegant languages that aren't useful, but these won't appear in such a diagram, because nobody remembers or uses them anymore.
(Exceptions may be esoteric/fun languages like Brainfuck, although these could be considered "elegant" from a certain point of view.)
I once watched a video about languages by I believe the designer of F# (could be wrong). He talked about a graph with a horizontal axis measuring "elegance". On the right hand end is your highly elegant mostly functional languages. On the left hand side are the rugged languages like C++ very few people would call it elegant. However on the vertical axis is Utility. on the bottom are "not very useful at all", and at t…
This is so kindergarten-level, I have no idea why it's on HN. BTW, Stroustrup himself has a list of applications written in C++: http://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html
In case you haven't seen it already, I would like to draw your attention to the HN guidelines posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Specifically the part that says Avoid gratuitous negativity. That means that your first sentence could probably be phrased in a different way, for example in terms of why you think the list of technologies isn't meaningful, or why it's a bad metric. On HN it's also generally frowned upon to complain about things being posted - if you feel it's truly off-topic, you are free to use the flagging privilege. This requires a certain amount of karma to use, though.
I really like sqlite, lua and luajit's "C" implementations. For C++ I think Qt is pretty reasonable, also the Unreal Engine. I'm using Java at work at the moment (Google Web Toolkit mainly, and learning it on the fly), but feeling the love in there. Some things are crazy (enums :)), others looked strange at the begining (dependency injection), but I really like the interface / class split - the interface "Set" vs the…
/me raises hand
Why not making this list open source? I mean, this is not complete at all and you won't be able to fill it in all on your own. Just my 2 cents :)
I don't think it's meant to be a comprehensive list, just a reminder that languages that many people consider "dead" or just "old fashioned" are in reality quite pervasive and power up many of our daily tools and apps.
Thanks, green-fielders, for ignoring all Programming Language research. If it weren't for you we'd be "stuck" with Smalltalk instead of Java and Lisp instead of C. So thanks (not).
I once watched a video about languages by I believe the designer of F# (could be wrong). He talked about a graph with a horizontal axis measuring "elegance". On the right hand end is your highly elegant mostly functional languages. On the left hand side are the rugged languages like C++ very few people would call it elegant. However on the vertical axis is Utility. on the bottom are "not very useful at all", and at t…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ
We should also consider that a lot of popular interpreted languages -- Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript -- are implemented in 'boring' C/C++. Abstraction is a beautiful thing, but we should not forget our roots!
I recently read someone saying that there exist so many interpreted languages built on top of C because no one really wants to write C, they would rather have a language built on top of another language. After starting to learn pure C myself, I have to agree.