Most Recent Language

[Nate Bross]

Just curious what other people here are playing around with.

What language(s) have you recently played with and how long ago?

Ive started (seriously) started using C# yesterday, and I have been playing with Python a little bit right after Christmas.

Anyone else?

 

[mskeel]

I just picked up Ruby a few weeks ago along with Rails. I like it pretty well so far, especially for ajax-style web development.

You can try it yourself right now without having to install anything. Also, if you really want to be blown away, surf over to the Ruby on Rails website and watch one of the movies they have there -- build a blog in 15 minutes is amazing.

 

[snarfblam]

Recently, I dropped VB in favor of C# (kind of funny since Ive been doing BASIC for over ten years, since long before it was regarded as a "real" programming language in any sense). At my bravest, I got my hands dirty with MS Visual C++ 6.0, but never got far enough to be particularly productive with it. I also tried a little 6502 assembly once (as in NES and Apple II). Neither of them were "basic" enough for me.

Ive always been behind in the world of web programming. I dont hold much interest in it because the systems in place are much more oblique and obscure than necessary. If you ask me, HTML and HTTP are disasters and the systems of communication between clients and servers sorely needs to be revamped. But thats just me, and Im better at making suggestions than doing things, so Ill shut up and stop dragging the thread off topic.

 

[Mister E]

http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/

My favorite language... ever.

 

[mskeel]

Is that whitespace language a joke or does it really work? I

 

[VagabondSW]

I just started with Visual Basic .NET in June 2005 because it was required at the last place I worked. In fact, it is the required language for my current contract as well.

From 2001-2005, I was programming in C# with a few Visual Basic for Applications thrown in on the side. Oh yeah, I also had a healthy dose of NWScript (for the game Neverwinter Nights) thrown in as well.

From 1995-2001, I was doing most of my coding in Visual Basic 5/6 and C. I also did a little bit of TCL (pronounced tickle). I tried cutting my teeth on C++ during this period, but it was not required for my job and the learning curve was otherwise too great to overcome "on the side".

From 1991-1995, It was all UNIX all the time. I was programming in C with a heavy dose of shell scripting, including AWK, SED, TROFF and some PERL towards the end of that period.

Prior to that it was BASIC, PICBasic, and Z80 assembly. My first BASIC program was written on a Tandy console and it calculated outcomes for mass combat under AD&D first edition rules.

 

[Mister E]

Is that whitespace language a joke or does it really work? I

 

[snarfblam]

It is certainly not a joke, but it is not an entierly serious programming language. It is conceptual. It isnt there to do things with it, but rather it is there to make people think. (Either that or it really is, as stated on the title page, the product of staying up too late and drinking too much.)

 

[Mister E]

No, it is not simply conceptual. Yes, it is there to do things with, e.g. a Calculator.

Plus you can save a lot of money on hard copies of your code.

 

[IngisKahn]

lol, or you could always try brainfvck.

 

[snarfblam]

Im sorry if the answer is obvious, Im still learning.
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Take a look at the third line. That should be pushing a number on the stack for a total stacksize of two items, but when I dump the stack there is only one item on the stack. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Mister E]

Im sorry if the answer is obvious, Im still learning.
[Broken External Image]:http://www.buy-printer-paper.org/images_products/37098_big.gif
Take a look at the third line. That should be pushing a number on the stack for a total stacksize of two items, but when I dump the stack there is only
one item on the stack. What am I doing wrong?

Looks like youre just missing a tab.

 

[Iceplug]

Apparently, creating unreadable languages are all of the rage in the 21st century, anyway. :-\