What language???
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So here's one I was just reflecting on.
- Which language did you first learn programming in?
- Which language did you sweat bullets in for the first time? (What language was your trial by fire? Your very first maximum stress experience...)
- If you knew pressure was coming which language would you be more inclined to have at your back? Not necessarily your favorite but the one you know best.
For me:
- The answer is C. My college even used K & R.
- SAP R/3 & Abap 4. Had to work in it and C++/ATL.
- C. I just like C. It's fun and simple. Frameworks take a long time to learn.
I only read CP for the articles. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
1. First introduced to computers back in 1989 when I trained in BASIC and COBOL programming at the same time. Both were very interesting languages and I like both very well. I went from BASIC all versions and finally to Visual Basic for DOS when it hit the market. Then got in on the beta release of VB for Windows and loved it. Have experienced all the version upgrades of VB to my present Enterprise development version of Visual Studio .NET 2003 2. I first found going from VB 16 to VB32 was difficult but have to say VB.NET and ASP.NET are very challenging for me. Until these upgrades I felt programming was fairly simple thing to do. 3. It would be VB6. :-D
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(falls off chair) WOW! Guess there's someone else out there worse off than me :) JUUUST kiddin. You must work on a billing system or somethin I'm guessin? Amdocs? ...Steve
Local County Government. The apps were running are, as you guessed, water/sewer billing, permits, tax collections, hr, and payroll. :-D Go COBOL Go... :laugh: Lost in the vast sea of .NET
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So here's one I was just reflecting on.
- Which language did you first learn programming in?
- Which language did you sweat bullets in for the first time? (What language was your trial by fire? Your very first maximum stress experience...)
- If you knew pressure was coming which language would you be more inclined to have at your back? Not necessarily your favorite but the one you know best.
For me:
- The answer is C. My college even used K & R.
- SAP R/3 & Abap 4. Had to work in it and C++/ATL.
- C. I just like C. It's fun and simple. Frameworks take a long time to learn.
I only read CP for the articles. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
1. Forth - through a suitably bizarre set of circumstances. 2. Z80 assembler; fitting about 200K worth of compiler into a 45K allowable memory footprint. 3. Python, Ada and C++ (in that order). Open standards, clean interfaces and effective exploratory/prototype code support have saved my bacon more times than I care to think about. On the other hand, if I wanted to permanently frell a project and guarantee that it would go dramatically over budget, be behind schedule and have questionable future maintenance capability, I've yet to see anythihng with the power to obfuscate that Java has. I prefer to use languages as tools, not religious icons. -- Jeff Dickey jdickey@seven-sigma.com Seven Sigma Software and Services Phone/SMS: +6012 373 8513 FOAF: http://www.seven-sigma.com/foaf.rdf Yahoo! IM: jeff_dickey ICQ: 8053918 Tencent QQ: 30302349 -- If you can't reach me by any of these, one of us may be permanently offline -- I use and recommend GNU Privacy Guard to authenticate and secure email messages! Public key: Download from public servers - Key ID 27F20D92 Fingerprint: B6FB B5DB 9FB5 2ADE B4B3 AF6C 3467 5D64 27F2