Do you have a language you're kind of ashamed that you like(d)?
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
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BASIC, in all the flavors I've used since I started this craft: MS-BASIC, GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, PowerBasic, VB 1 for DOS, VB4, VB6, VB.NET. I learned and achieved a lot using it, and have no regrets or embarrassment. My favorite language is the first one I learned, though I've rarely used it: Assembly
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Languages (both natural and computer) are tools. Would you ask a carpenter whether he/she/it is ashamed of using a hammer? There are languages that are better (or worse) for a particular purpose, and there are languages whose syntax causes me to shudder (e.g. Python's significant indentation), but there is no language that I would feel ashamed to know.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Languages (both natural and computer) are tools. Would you ask a carpenter whether he/she/it is ashamed of using a hammer? There are languages that are better (or worse) for a particular purpose, and there are languages whose syntax causes me to shudder (e.g. Python's significant indentation), but there is no language that I would feel ashamed to know.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Some mechanics look down their nose at impact wrenches. Just sayin'
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Some mechanics look down their nose at impact wrenches. Just sayin'
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
Do you secretly love Perl?
Certainly not ashamed about it. But I don't expect anyone else in the group to use it or even understand it. If I must create a tool for others to use then I extensively document the usage. And I comment the code extensively too. Not just why the code is doing something but explaining what the code actually does (the sort of comments that should not normally appear in code.)
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Some mechanics look down their nose at impact wrenches. Just sayin'
As the son of a mechanic, I'd say, none of these people has ever tried to make a living as a mechanic. Or they're paid by the hour.
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Some mechanics look down their nose at impact wrenches. Just sayin'
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I worked on the worlds largest and longest running ( to date ) liquidation for 21 years, all the claim handling and payment systems where written in Foxpro for DOS. It performed brilliantly and never let us down.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Some mechanics look down their nose at impact wrenches. Just sayin'
As the son of a mechanic, I'd say, none of these people has ever tried to make a living as a mechanic. Or they're paid by the hour.
I'd say they're paid by the hour. :laugh: But I mean, you could extend the analogy to something like C versus VB6 I think.
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Youl'd never undo the machine assembled bits without an impact
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
There's nothing you can't undo with enough heat and a long enough lever.
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There was very little you couldn't do in VB6 I to learnt a lot of Win32 stuff and was introduced to the wonderful world of Com servers and ActiveX. Exciting times.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
VB6 was the dogs danglies if you used it well. Absolute dog's dinner in other cases.
veni bibi saltavi
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There's nothing you can't undo with enough heat and a long enough lever.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I'd say they're paid by the hour. :laugh: But I mean, you could extend the analogy to something like C versus VB6 I think.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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gwbasic, as it is better than python :)
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I know nothing about CF, so please rest assured I am not dissing it, nevertheless, the way you phrased it:
snorkie wrote:
Not quite ashamed, but I started in Cold Fusion 4.5
This is like the quip "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it" :laugh:
Cheers, Vikram.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Do you secretly love Perl?
Certainly not ashamed about it. But I don't expect anyone else in the group to use it or even understand it. If I must create a tool for others to use then I extensively document the usage. And I comment the code extensively too. Not just why the code is doing something but explaining what the code actually does (the sort of comments that should not normally appear in code.)
jschell wrote:
(the sort of comments that should not normally appear in code.)
Hey, if it doesn't bother you that it's necessary to do that with Perl, far be it from me to judge. Every time I even read Perl I feel like I need a shower. :laugh:
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Some sort of glue language that maybe everyone loves to hate, but felt right at home for you? Are you a closet Access/VBA junkie? Do you secretly love Perl? For me it would definitely be VB6. As much as I hate to admit it, for Windows UI code that glued my DLLs together, I feel like it was fantastic, even if the language itself was clunky and kind of limited unless you were willing to hack down to win32 from it quite a bit. Still, pretty neat what you could do with it if you were willing to get dirty. I learned a lot of win32 with it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
As long as I'm a user of a language, which pays my salary, and not the creator/designer of that language, there's nothing to be ashamed of. Each language has its own beauty and ugliness, and everything in this world is like that, isn't it?
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VB6 was the dogs danglies if you used it well. Absolute dog's dinner in other cases.
veni bibi saltavi
In 1993 I started using a version of Basic that was a lot like todays Assembly, it was a brief but important stepping stone in understanding how stuff works in programming, how instructions are executed one after the other, how loops are created with the go to command etc. I quit trying things with the language shortly afterwards for a few reasons.
