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I guess Iād have to say Basic. First learned in high school in late 70ās. After that learned more DEC Basic in college and first job that I had that paid enough for me to move out of my parents house was also using DEC Basic. Used Turbo Basic, Quick Basic, MS Basic, VB For DOS (that was interesting), VBA in Access, VB5 (briefly), VB6, and VB.Net. Now Iām using C# and I really am enjoying it.
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I'll join you on that one. You could go from proof of concept to prototype to MVP in no time. We pushed the limits and pushed Access as well. Access got to be an issue because it required more and more hardware to handle the size and web stuff; switched to Postgres using VB6
I still have purview over a VB6 base, though coding is left to someone else. It still plays nicely though its days are numbered since it's easier to maintain web-based for inter/intranet applications.
I have to admit I still miss the printing interface. It was so easy to generate business documents and it didn't require one to be a point and pixel artist, lol.
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Visual Basic 6 was very fun back when I began my software development career. I even did a little DirectX work with it. I'm not really ashamed of it because of the power it had in the end. One of these weekends I'll see if I can reinstall it and play with it again for old times sake.
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Never. As long as it solves the problem it's ok for me.
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A long time ago at a company that no longer exists...
Lotus created an office suite successor to their wildly popular MS-DOS-based Lotus 123 spreadsheet called Symphony. A customer had a group of 123 spreadsheets that they used to manage engineering processes, parts flows, and the like. Since these were separate files, they loaded sheets in a sequence, computed values, then manually entered those values in successor sheets. As you can imagine, this was very error-prone.
I created a menu system and an overlay[^] manager in Symphony macros. I don't remember too many details, other than it seemed very elegant at the time. Macro code lived in the sheet and you could mix formula cells in your macros, which would then 'execute' the value of the formula. Great fun, if a horrific abuse of a macro language.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sorry.
Never ashamed. Each language gave new insights - some better than others, others provided examples of what not to do.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Nope. Every language I've used was useful for the purpose I used it.
Intel x86 Assembly
Motorola 6502 Assembly
IBM BAL (Assembly)
IBM JCL
APL
Forth
C
C++ with and without MFC (I wrote SetiDriver in C++ with MFC)
C#
DOS/CMD Scripting
VB6
VBA
VB.Net
Java
CLU
Prolog (dabbled but never used heavily)
Windows Scripting Host via VBScript
PowerShell
Clipper
Access Basic
T-SQL
Pascal
DEC DCL
DEC Basic
SuperNova (pure OO language that I hated - not ashamed but hated)
There are a few more that I've forgotten.
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Turbo Pascal (then Delphi)
But I have no shame saying it. Those were fantastic languages!
Christian Lavigne
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Proud dev using MS Access / VBA. Until they get used outside their expected domain - then you have to tell the users to find a grown up solution.
I still use that hated Hungarian notation naming style when I get to.
Is HTML considered a language here?
Unproud - ok, I still use HTML tables to do page organization / layout.
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REXX
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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The beauty of a cobol program, designed to replace assembler, all the memory usage statements at the top followed by the procedural code.
PERFORM 4000-Do-Something VARYING fd-counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL fd-counter = 10
Don't forget to include your flow chart of the program!
Yeah, I kind of liked working cobol.
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Believe it or not... C#
I was a hardcore x86 assembly junky, and C when that wouldn't cut it. I hated everything there was to interpreted languages, loved everything about clean, tight code.
And then C# comes along with its 134MB (at the time) of .NET Framework you have to have installed, it's interpreted bytecode, it's "assemblies" which aren't really DLLs... And, I wanted to hate it.
But I've been using it for a long time now. And... it's really well designed. It's useful. It's scalable.
I'm ashamed to admit that I actually like it.
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Not that it was ever income-generating for me, but I liked LISP. You could write some very elegant (although not readable code) in it
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