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Slacker007 wrote: Why is that?
Because SO has more VB students trying to get their homework done for them than CP?
Hard to believe when you look at QA, but ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The "L" in "HTML" stands for "Language". And HTML is what I use a lot. Not Javascript, not ECMAScript.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I so want to poke the bear, in a positive discussion way.
True, question asks for languages using. So unless people blindly read the question, everyone should have ticked other.
Why? how else would you have read the question if not using English.
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I am surprised Code Project forgets the Lua, tonight.
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mischasan wrote: 100K line system
Oh no!
This is the scariest thing I've heard in a long, long time.
That may be the largest PERL project I've ever heard of.
Do you like PERL?
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I've worked for ActiveState then Sophos; the latter uses perl for big,
maintainable, high-volume services. Come to think of it, the Sophos
email gateway must be several hundred thousand lines by now.
Yes, I've seen crappy perl codebases. I was lucky enough to be with
people who understood Perl from the fundament up; and we learned what
well-formed, maintainable Perl required. Not hard.
I do indeed like perl 5. Its internal efficiencies might surprise you;
trumps Java.
It grafts on top of C/C++ modules easily. (For embedded perl in C++,
not so good; Lua is much better.)
I'm curious where you got your impressions of perl from, though I can guess.
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Very interesting and great explanation. sounds like you have a process wrapped around the PERL and that's always good.
I've mostly seen PERL used for scripting. We had huge Netscape Enterprise Server logs back in the day and it was used for parsing through them. It was the fastest thing at the time for doing that.
But, the syntax is very off-putting to my sensibilities. But that's probably because I haven't worked with it enough. I've never seen it used for very large projects or even an entire app, just CGI and scripting.
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Ok, I don't do FORTRAN anymore - but I miss it for some reason.
A few weeks ago I had to look at some COBOL on the mainframe after not touching COBOL since 1987!
Luckily I only had to read it to work out some data usage stuff; don't you just love DIM statements?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 17-Jul-19 14:06pm.
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Yes, especially DIM SUM
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I'm surprised at the number of folks here using Assembly. I would love to be able to use that again.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I just picked up some books on Assembly, Embedded C is fun, but I've really been wanting to dive deeper. I was hoping to go through some samples this summer, but it's looking like I'll be too busy.
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Assembly was the first programming language I learned and used. I love the direct connection to the hardware. But it isn't for most people. It requires a heck of a lot more planning than any RAD language.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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btw: that signature of yours sums it up pretty good
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Wrote some assembly just today - embedded systems (with no OS) need that at times... Although I think it's always good to be able to read assembly, so that compiled code (maybe from somewhere like Godbolt) is no mystery...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Why not Hypertext Markup Language?
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...or doesn't that count as a language
But, of course, JavaScript is listet, and that really isn't a language...
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I selected VB/VB.NET as I do some work in VBA in Word and Excel. Behind the scenes VBA is VB with a heavy layer of various object models overlaid.
But I haven't used VB6 since about 2002 nor VB.NET since 2006.
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Be careful...
Several years ago our sales staff sent me into a customer's VB-project, knowing that I am quite good at VBA, and VB and VBA sound very much alike.
And I had to struggle very hard to get the job done, as VB and VBA are much less alike than they sound.
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True, there are significant differences between VB and VBA. Knowing one well makes it much easier to learn the other -- IME learning the Word or Excel object models was the more difficult, especially if done at the same time.
Given that I work for a C# shop that has no VB/VB.NET, my risk is low.
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We all make somehow and somewhere a little automation for time-consuming and nasty little jobs, so that everything always runs smoothly.
These little helpers are also worth mentioning, right?
Something about which we often break our head:
"In the name of the Compiler, the Stack, and the Bug-Free Code. Amen."
(source unknown)
modified 17-Jul-19 7:46am.
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Not to mention Windows batch.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's always better not to mention Windows batch if you have an option
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Pshaw. I once implemented Fizz buzz[^] in a batch file on a dare.
Software Zen: delete this;
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CMD did used to be my goto (:eof ) for build scripts. Then I realised I could just put the Win32 port of busybox (a single 600kB executable) in my project & use shell scripts and other Unix utilities instead. No more CMD for me...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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