I'll be using good old PHP
Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#22"classic" asp. Still have some crappy legacy pdf generation code no one is willing to invest the time to rewrite into here. Fortunately that's all of an update a year or so.
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#23Depends on your definition of "old" -- I'm using Bash, PHP, HTML, and JavaScript at work, which are all over 21 years old, but they don't really feel that old (even PHP feels new and shiny thanks to the lovely Symfony framework).
Re: Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
#24Lots and lots of C. (I'm mostly an embedded C programmer these days). Some C++ for a bit of higher-level "business logic" that benefits from a class-based approach, but a fairly limited subset of "modern" C++.
Plus if you don't need inheritance, you can just use pointers to structs and pass them to functions. And if you need simple polymorphism in some small places, you can use tagged unions.
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#25Depends what you mean by "old". I'm mainly using C# and that is (somewhat surprisingly) 17 years old [1]. I still think of it as a shiny new thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)...
To be fair a lot of really useful C# features came way after that, like LINQ, Async/Await, type inference, etc
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#26IEC61131-3 family.. very widely used stuff, but definitely feels clunky and old. It's not even fun-retro-old, it's just old-old.
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#27Lots and lots of C. (I'm mostly an embedded C programmer these days). Some C++ for a bit of higher-level "business logic" that benefits from a class-based approach, but a fairly limited subset of "modern" C++.
Lots and lots of C for me too. A huge pile of legacy business software which is still being extended to do new stuff.
My only real gripe with C is that you have to write your own functions/macros (or use someone else's) to make dealing with strings intuitive. The stdlib is perfectly fine from an algorithmic standpoint, but I always have to look up every string function's manpage, every single time I use them.
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#28Lisp, C, .... Not Fortran though
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#29They all are "old". If it's new it's probably some wired buggy and failing combination of C Lisp and Forth.
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#30Active Server Pages (aka classic asp)
VBScript
JScript