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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now
« Last post by Tuxman on July 17, 2017, 01:44 PM »1. What was your first programming language?
Given that "batch files" are not really "programming", it was either QBasic or Turbo Pascal. However, my memories of QBasic are (too) long gone, so I'll stick with Turbo Pascal. If I remember correctly, my short Visual Basic experiences were after that; or were they? Ah, growing old is not for sissies.
2. Can you remember a snippet from that language?
Does "Hello World" count?
(I moved my focus to Delphi not much later, which was and still is "like Pascal" but different.)
3. What's your current language of choice?
4. How would you rewrite that snippet in your current language?
The one fascinating thing with these two questions is the assumption that there is exactly one language I'd choose for anything. Does anyone here really stick to one language?
Not counting my paid day job (which involves Java and C#), I write
Do you really need a "Hello World" in all these languages?
Given that "batch files" are not really "programming", it was either QBasic or Turbo Pascal. However, my memories of QBasic are (too) long gone, so I'll stick with Turbo Pascal. If I remember correctly, my short Visual Basic experiences were after that; or were they? Ah, growing old is not for sissies.
2. Can you remember a snippet from that language?
Does "Hello World" count?
(I moved my focus to Delphi not much later, which was and still is "like Pascal" but different.)3. What's your current language of choice?
4. How would you rewrite that snippet in your current language?
The one fascinating thing with these two questions is the assumption that there is exactly one language I'd choose for anything. Does anyone here really stick to one language?
Not counting my paid day job (which involves Java and C#), I write
- web applications in C, C++, Python, Common Lisp, or (if I'm in a hurry or I need to maintain existing code) PHP
- recurring server tasks in Perl, POSIX shell script, or Common Lisp
- desktop applications in C or Delphi (I stopped caring for Electron), still maintaining older C++ applications though
- other browser things in JavaScript because they force me to.
Do you really need a "Hello World" in all these languages?
, it might be hard to fulfill your specific needs. I don't really understand why you dislike Krusader with its "KDE libraries" but you like Dolphin which uses "the KDE libraries" as well, but that might be just me.
