Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 08.09.2024 13:05, Bart wrote:

On 08/09/2024 01:05, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

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First, it is not my goal to advocate for Forth use.

 
For me it's one of those languages, like Brainf*ck, which is trivial to
implement (I've done both), but next to impossible to code in.

Well, it depends. In comparison to Intercal Brainf*ck appeared
to me as quite comfortably programmable. - LOL

(I had also written my version of Brainf*ck in the past with a
couple more features, though. Just for fun. I've never used it
seriously; if that makes any sense in the first place.)

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Pascal was a teaching language and some thought went into its structure
(unlike C). In my hands I would have given it some tweaks to make it a
viable systems language. For a better evolution of Pascal, forget Wirth,
look at Ada, even thought that is not my thing because it is too strict
for my style.

Pascal was (and still is) often despised as a "teaching language".

However, I've heared in the 1980's that even the control software
of a nuclear reprocessing plant in our country had been written
in Pascal.

(Personally I'd have a better feeling of safety if I knew such
software is written in Pascal than, say, in "C". Mileages vary.)

Janis