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What's the one programming language you hope you never have to code in again ever?
Oct 3 at 5:24amWeb
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘Oct 3

@nixCraft

Lisp

Show threadozamidasOct 3
@juglugs @nixCraft woah woah woah explain that one because lisp has a cult following
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘Oct 3

@ozamidas @nixCraft

So do many classic cars, but they're all a bit crap and almost every modern alternative is better.

I answered the question honestly. I hope I never have to code in it again.

Show threadozamidasOct 3
@juglugs @nixCraft alright then, i thought you had a horror story with the lang, because c++ and cobol tend to
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘Oct 3

@ozamidas @nixCraft

Only that I was forced to learn/use it, and I found it really hard - I could do everything I needed to (back then) with Pascal or C, so it was just pointless to me.

Show threadKissYagniOct 3

@ozamidas

For centuries, mathematicians have written f(x), and because of low level consideration that are obsolete since at least the 80s, Lisp has decided to write (f x).

I'm alergic to Polish notation.

Show threadrpgwaiterOct 3
@nixCraft Java. Also C#.
Show threadBryceOct 3
@nixCraft Assembly!
Show threadChatTCOct 4
@NationMeta @nixCraft Which architecture?
Show threadBryceOct 4
@telecon @nixCraft x86
Show threadChatTCOct 4
@NationMeta @nixCraft ew. Yuck
Show threadrwaOct 3
@nixCraft Java
Show threadπ•Šβ„π”Έπ•†π•ŠOct 3
@nixCraft Java
Show threadjaarkOct 3
@nixCraft javascript
Sadly I will need to do so again, and again and again.
Show threadwbftwOct 3
@nixCraft c++
Show threadShawnT πŸ”§πŸ€Oct 3
@nixCraft BASIC. Seriously. It's the one language I consider a form of generational abuse; a method to inflict brain damage on the young. It took me years after that to grok WTF a pointer was.
Show threadDavid 🦣Oct 3
@phaysis @nixCraft How dare you!! Basic was probably the first and last language I did completely understand! πŸ˜‚
Show threadDrYakOct 3

@Davidjackson @phaysis @nixCraft To its credit, BASIC was a good introductory generalist language to bring a more diverse audience to computing. And it made sense for 8bit microcomputers to boot straight into that.

Nowadays, Python and BASH are a better fit for this role.

and even in the 16 bit era it started to show its limitations

Show threadDavid 🦣Oct 3
@dryak @phaysis @nixCraft It did. But I still remember the family activity of one person reading code out from Electron User magazine, another typing it in, and a third checking it.
Show threadDrYakOct 3
@phaysis @nixCraft opposite effect here:
Started back in the "PEEK'n'POKE" era of home computing; so when I stole my mom's "C tutorial" books, my reaction to pointers was a happy "Okay, now we have the real deal!"
Show threadShawnT πŸ”§πŸ€Oct 3

@dryak @nixCraft
Unfortunately, I never had the benefit of PEEK and POKE, because my daily driver was a TI99/4A, which had a dumb version of BASIC. To get the advanced features, one needed the TI-BASIC Extended cartridge, which nobody had.

Was totally jealous of my C64 friends. Wasn't until I got my hands on an Amstrad CPC that I finally unlocked some skills.

Show threadkwayk42Oct 3
@nixCraft VBA
Show threadMaciej SypienOct 3
@nixCraft Java & PHP
Show threadLars HanischOct 3
@nixCraft Perl
Show threadDaniel EversOct 4
@flensrocker
+1 for Perl
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Show threaddodothedevπŸ¦€πŸ’»Oct 3
@nixCraft
I've only dabbled in a few, but out of them, JavaScript. Just so weird.
Show threadBlint 🦦Oct 3
@nixCraft ruby, C#, Haskell
Show threadozamidasOct 3
@blint @nixCraft damn why haskell?
Show threadBlint 🦦Oct 3
@ozamidas @nixCraft well, I had a really bad teacher, and I've experience only the pain of using it...
Show threadKlaus FrankOct 3
@nixCraft
JavaScript
Show threadDavid de GrootOct 3

@nixCraft modula-2

Oh wait, Cobol

Show threadTobias BΓΆlzOct 3
@nixCraft Swift.
Show threadKarl Name Oct 3
@nixCraft Assembler.
Show threadFlorian JudithOct 3
@nixCraft VBA
Show threadLIΞBΞ”CHOct 3
@nixCraft PHP.
Show threadMikael Lundin πŸ€πŸ₯¦β™»οΈOct 3
@nixCraft Windows Workflow Foundation. Maybe not technically a language but we used it in Team Foundation Server to program CI pipelines. It was hell. The designer you were supposed to be using was leaking memory and became unusable on large files so you had to edit the XAML files manually.
Show threadPavelOct 3
@nixCraft VBA is pure evil. Especially considering that it is very hard to track changes as it's part of an Excel sheet
Show threadzinzOct 3

@pavel

I can highly recommend rubberduck. It enhances the experience quite a bit. And you can easily export and import all the files. And check those into version control
https://rubberduckvba.com/
With rubberduck it's a whole different experience...

rubberduckvba.com

Show threadPavelOct 3

@zinz I am happy to announce that I am no longer working with VBA and am not planning to change it

Thanks for the link though!

Show threadJoel TakvorianOct 3
@nixCraft i'd have said C a couple of years ago. But now I'm doing C again πŸ˜…
Show threadJoel TakvorianOct 3
@nixCraft otherwise: ruby
Show threadJim JonesOct 3
@nixCraft Java. Just never got into it.
Show threadMarcus The Board GamerOct 3
@GreatBigTable @nixCraft x86 assembly. Do not want.
Show threadmraiurOct 3
@nixCraft once was forced to work under windows for c# and 8 hate to work with both
Show threadKusuriya (kk7hut)Oct 3
@nixCraft VBS may it be eternally tortured in hell
Show threadRobDOct 3
@nixCraft PL/SQL
Show threadLuke TrevorrowOct 3
@nixCraft COBOL
Show threadAmmar (they/them)Oct 3
@nixCraft why force me to choose only one? 😭
Show threadExpired TokenOct 3
@nixCraft Not sure it accounts for a programming language, but csh scripting was a pain.
Show threadSeb πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Oct 3
@nixCraft fortran or cobol. Horrible languages
Show threadManegiste Flou ⏚ (he/him)Oct 3
@docteurslump try RPG πŸ˜‡
Show threadk0nzeOct 3
@nixCraft PHP and JavaScript, even though they financed my CS degree
Show threadgnarfOct 3
@nixCraft VBA,tcl
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsOct 3
@gnarf @nixCraft fascinating, what's up with Tcl for you? #lang_en
Show threadgnarfOct 3
@ellenor2000 @nixCraft If you ever had to maintain a XML 'parser' that consisted of magically glued regexes written in tcl...
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsOct 3
@gnarf were you forbidden from loading addons written in C? or was this in an era when an XML parser addon was not available for Tcl? #lang_en
Show threadgnarfOct 3
@ellenor2000 pure tcl because of religious reasons.
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsOct 3

@gnarf *religious reasons.*

what the- #lang_en

Show threadPigeonholed TibikeOct 3
@nixCraft javascript and PHP
although there might be no escaping JS ever..
Show threadAman VerasiaOct 3
@nixCraft javascript