Best programming language

[Recursion]

Poll question: Best programming language

OK, let's have a flamewar to rival GDP

[RoyGBiv]

1. Nice push poll, Hitler ...

Where's Cobol or Ada? C'mon!!!

You must be a Lispbot. Well, let me tell ya. Lisp is just an empty suit, er, umm, well, an empty stack ... or something.

:evilgrin:

[Recursion]

2. I confess! I've drunk the cons-aid!

I worship in front of an alter of Guy Steele every night.

[trotsky]

3. FORTRAN you paid shill!!!11!one!

You're TOTALLY just like your loser programming language.

[qnr]

4. Oberon-2 n/t

[qnr]

5. Where are you, right now?

Did you get me email?

[RoyGBiv]

6. Talking to yourself again?

:evilgrin:

[qnr]

7. It appears that I am

This is Mrs. qnr trying to chase down her husband. I don't have a clue about oberon. Just passing through... please ignore... sorry... excuse me... going now... waving... bye bye...

[qnr]

8. That's because we're a team! (says mr qnr)

:hi:

[alfredo]

9. Is that Bells Oberon?

Or Merle Oberon?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. still mired in AWK

I need to learn PERL. Seriesly.

[kooth]

14. Mired in AWK

Hi JustABozoOnThisBus!

Great handle by the way! I have been an awk, nawk, and gawk user since 1987. I too should learn PERL, but awk and the others are quite useful. On my desktop at home and work, I run CYGWIN (http://www.cygwin.com) and they have gawk like on Linux systems. And with CYGWIN, you can get the source code. They have and I have compiled a version that uses case statements!

Anyway, if you have any questions about awk or any of the other flavors, I'd be happy to help!

Hang in there,

Kooth

[pokerfan]

11. Cobol!

:hide:

[alfredo]

12. BasicV. Please make it stop!

[Fumesucker]

13. Steve Ciarcia says his favorite programming language is solder..

:evilgrin:

http://www.circellar.com/

[RC]

15. Where is Basic?

Apple ][+ to be precise. Hey, it worked for me. :eyes:

[RoyGBiv]

16. Heh ... reminds me ...

I was in high school and working in the library when they started computerizing things, and we got a ]<+ and a honking MASSIVE 20MB hard drive for the circulation system.[br />
The librarian at the time was totally technologically illiterate. She had trouble with the slide projector. So, she got me and one of my friends who worked there also to listen in on the sales pitch and pseudo-training session by the software company that sold us all the stuff for it, and then we set everything up, taught others how to use it, etc., which was all fine. But then she tried to make it sound like she'd done it all, and she had the audacity to go in and take away our administrator privileges.

Well, the software for this system was written in BASIC, and you could kill it with ^C (or whatever the Apple equivalent was ... been awhile), which we did. Then, my friend and I were able to go in, edit the code, and add a couple of fake names to the system as permanent users with full permissions and route the login so it bypassed the user database when our name/pass combos were entered.

I don't know if they ever figured it out before replacing the system, but I do know that "Steven Levy" and "Martin Minskey" had a helluva lot of overdue library books after we graduated. :)

[RC]

17. I used it to write an inventory control system for

a Cable TV company I worked for in the 1980's. It was keeping track of almost a million dollars worth of inventory. Prices, reorder points, who took whatever out-& when, recycled equipment, Reports to accounting. Everything. The whole thing fit on two 5 1/4 floppies. One for the program and the other for the data base.