Do you have a language you're kind of ashamed that you like(d)?

[Mycroft Holmes]

Ah I remember Delphi, we built a solution that worked for about 2 hours before the memory leaks crippled it, took the code to Borland and they could not fix it, Delphi died that day along with 3 months of work.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

[StarNamer work]

I don't think I'm ashamed to say I learnt Latin at school.

[StarNamer work]

I recently wrote a script to reset and fix the display layout when I switch between laptops using a KVM switch and multiple USB hubs. I wrote one version in Perl and one in PowerShell. I like the Perl one better. I'm definitely not ashamed to say I still like and use Perl. :)

@x=qx{pnputil /enum-devices /problem};

for(@x)
{
if(/Instance ID:\s+(.+)/)
{
system qq{pnputil /disable-device \"$1\"};
system qq{pnputil /enable-device \"$1\"}
}
}

pnputil /enum-devices /problem|select-string "Instance ID"|Foreach-object {$_ -match "Instance ID:\s+(?.*)";$x = $matches['root'];Invoke-Expression -Command "pnputil /disable-device ""$x""";}

[Calin Negru]

30 years later they still teach that stuff.

[englebart]

Watch Barbarians on Amazon streaming. Lots of Latin dialogue from the Roman army. They tend to use a cadence that sounds very Italian to my ear.

[Lost User]

Better than Phyton, innit?

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.

[kmoorevs]

honey the codewitch wrote:

For me it would definitely be VB6

Upvoted for being courageous enough to admit this here or on any coder's forum! :thumbsup: I agree 100% with you. VB6 might be old and ugly but as long as MS is shipping the runtimes with the OS, those executables will live on and some developers will continue to support those products/projects. I came back to programming in the late 90s and got my first job doing VB6/Classic ASP development. To keep a long story short, I am still at that company and we still lots of active VB6 projects. (likely > 1M LOC across 2 largish apps and 100 or so 'add-on modules') Those apps are getting migrated as time allows which means very slowly! :laugh: In the past I've hired 2 jr. developers for migration only, but neither worked out. Perhaps I just haven't found the right one...or I'm impossible to work with. :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

[honey the codewitch]

If you're still using VB6 and you want to make your apps pretty check this site out vbAccelerator.com - Advanced VB, C# and VB.NET Source Code and Controls[^] He produces some quality controls for VB6 with professional look and feel. It's aces. I learned a lot back in the day from just looking at his code.

Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

[Chris Maunder]

Windows Batch. It's my dirty little secret.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

The first (real) language I learned was Pascal and I still respect the walrus operator. It just always seemed more imperative than plain '='.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

FORTRAN in itself isn't terrible. Millions of lines of FORTRAN written by scientists who never did any formal computing and just let their systems grow and metastasise...that was torture. Hopefully never again.

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

I haven't heard that name in many a long year. (Wow I feel old now)

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

You're a true poet

cheers Chris Maunder

[jmaida]

:) agree

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

[Uncork]

Never be ashamed of Forth

[Chris Nicolatos]

Having been brought up with Fortran IV, I was ecstatic when I learned Clipper in ths MS-DOS world. Windows made me change to VB6 which I used for many years for numerous projects but there is a time when all good things must go. I switched to VB .Net and now to C# but I am still nostalgic about Clipper and VB6

[LiamOHagan]

I loved Visual FoxPro. Fast, easy to use, great community. MS killed it to force VFP developers to move to SQL Server. Good business move for MS. A shame for everyone else.

[Peter Gorod]

Biblical Greek...

[seismofish]

I still love Perl and use it almost every day - for everything from system administration to web applications. None of the reasons that the industry typically gives for decrying it seem to affect me: I can still read code that I wrote ten years ago. <°}}}>«<

[b4blue]

Not really. I know JS fanboys wanted me to be ashamed about AS3 for years, but it made web development exciting and fun and it was similar to Java/C# so it made it easier for me to get into .Net after it was no longer popular. Ah... good times.