[Sussex] Hello all

[Geoff Teale]

Predictably my ears popped up at a programming discussion ;)

Andrew and Nik wrote:
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> > 	m68k
> 
> Well Amiga, that's all I have to say.

Indeed.  A fine platform with fine tools.  It was one of the last platforms
on which Assembly lanuage was a worthwhile passtime and where I learnt to
C++ (anyone use SAS C++ on the Amiga?).

> > 	Basic

Eugh *shudder*

> 
> > 	Pascal
> 

Used it at college, and later Delphi, liked it at the time, still like the
_idea_ of Delphi/Kylix, but I find the reality irritating - Too much
inconsistant syntax - do I need a semi-colon or not?

> > 	C
> 
> Looked at it, never got it.

He he... there isn't much to get.  The thing about C is that there is really
nothing to the basic langauge, what the books never tell you is that if you
go and get a job in it then you're going to have to learn a bunch of other
libraries and C is just the glue that holds it all together.  This is also
true of C++ (although we kind of have more in there to start with STL for
examples *looks back to see who is cowering at the mention of the STL*).
Hmmm, POSIX .1, POSIX.4, Gtk+, Gtk--, MFC *blurgh*, Qt, psqllib, ACE, ATL
*blurgh*, Xlib... etc etc...

> > 	VB
> 
> It's evil I tell, evil. I never know language to have so many 
> date bugs. :)

It's a fine language.. in much the same way COBOL is.. honest....  ...excuse
me, I feel a little sick.

> > 	Java
> 

Solid, clean, nice to work in.  Apparantly Sun don't recommend it for
internal projects(!) - see slashdot today!

> > 	Perl
> 
> Didn't learn it, See below.

Don't learn it - it is hiddeous.  Python, Ruby, PHP all of them can do what
Perl can, some of them can do it better and all of them have better syntax
(even if they do over-sugar it a bit).

BTW.  Please ignore the Debian bigots, we don't stand for any distropeer
pressure on this list [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo]
[Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use
Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo]
[Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use
Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] [Use Gentoo] :)

-- 
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