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ColdFusion/CFML. All day, every day. Although a heavy dose of the newer hotness and the eventual migration of everything I work with off of it is in the works. Still enjoy working with it though. Very productive.
Seems only two of us here.
I'm working on the latest revision of a client's CF intranet app that been in use for fifteen years, now.
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Any suggestions for a bash scripting tutorial to help me better connect the dots? Over the years I've learned some nifty one-liners, but I'm not really familiar enough with the patterns and art of of command-line thinking to solve my own problems in bash. Most of the bash resources I've found online are just loosely organized collections of magic spells. I'd really like to get better at it though.
[Shameless plug] Not too long ago, I wrote a small book that tries to address those kinds of questions, i.e. how to use Bash to solve problems instead of 1-liners. You may find it useful: http://adventuresindatascience.com
Perl is one of those languages that nobody likes at my work, but that is impossible to get rid of. Java is in the same boat, but at least it's still marketable so engineers don't mind working with it as much.
I once worked at a place that basically just used perl server side. In this decade (2010s). The codebase was just one tangled mess. They told a story of a guy who failed the cultural interview because he told a VP "you can't write a large web app in perl", and of course they had done just that. With the reflection of hind sight I think despite the obvious empirical counter factual, he was on to something. It really w…
There are several hundred thousand lines of the language in the main application where I work.
While there are definitely some major issues and pain points with it, it's actually suprisingly powerful and the language itself is still being developed.
We've got a lot of things you wouldn't think would be in a BASIC, like classes and object-oriented programming, a "UI" library that targets the web without any (tm) changes (in practice it misses that mark, but it's still extremely useful), support for the big 3 platforms, and more.
I don't deal too much with it though as most of my job is connecting new web stacks up with the pxplus backends.
Here's a mention of the software in question from the UK's Unix User Group newsletter in 1995: https://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/linux-newsletter/linux@uk13...
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There are still a bunch of modern Windows desktop applications written in Delphi and C++Builder – I work on one of them. ^_^ I really like Delphi actually. It's a shame Embarcadero doesn't really seem to care about it.
Projects I know I'll need to heavily modify or work on for the foreseeable future, I bring forward into Lazarus. Lazarus has quite a bit of activity in its community.
I keep spending tons of time fighting problems, even with mainstream libraries like sqlite.
Still the best tool for multiplatform desktop apps development.
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There are still a bunch of modern Windows desktop applications written in Delphi and C++Builder – I work on one of them. ^_^ I really like Delphi actually. It's a shame Embarcadero doesn't really seem to care about it.
Delphi and C++ Builder downfall sadly started when Borland went greedy and started to scare customers with their lack of business focus, specially the spin off.
C (I hate C++) assembler (various) (I've even learned x86_64 well after being a RISC aficionado, it's actually kinda neat) sed bash LaTex I used to use YACC/LEX but that's been replaced with ANTLR for awhile now. What language am I starting to use? Rust and R. I wrote something in PERL once but when I woke up the next day I couldn't really read it. So that was that.