Veni Vidi Vi. Or EMACS If You’re A Wuss.
By Mitch Berg
Via our old friend King Banaian – old coding languages that refuse to die.
There were some on there I didn’t know. And I suppose it’s mildly heartening that they didn’t list Smalltalk.
Yet.
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July 21st, 2015 at 11:21 am
I had to support RPG II on an IBM 36 for a couple years for a client – I don’t miss that one at all.
July 21st, 2015 at 2:07 pm
Dear God, I’ve programmed in all those. Nearly all of them because I was forced to, though. FORTRAN being the exception since I needed raw speed at the time and to this day no other language comes close for serious scientific computing.
None of those are languages I would recommend as worth learning these days without serious coercion (serious money or booze required — lots and lots of booze for when you’ve spent a day wrangling with an APL keyboard).