Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:16 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

But my #1 fave is still Pascal. Poetry
   Thank you professor Wirth !

It isn't my favorite but Pascal wasn't bad after some real world additions
took it out of the academic world sort of like the impurities introduced
into common lisp made it usable.

U of Maine used Pascal for a didactic language. Sprague Electric tended to
hire UM graduates. Pascal wasn't great for automated testing, process
control, or robotic arm manipulators so I had some good paydays writing
modules they could use.

 

   Hey, want "Real Computing" ? Try FORTRAN or COBOL. THOSE were the
   foundation and persist to this day. Wrote a FORTRAN app just a couple
   of years ago - mostly to vex the New Guys. Also a short COBOL app,
   that oughtta REALLY give 'em the shits !

FORTRAN IV was my first language  This spring our department moved and in
the process I found some of my old books that I hadn't used in years. I
realized the F77 book was as hopelessly out of date as the C++ books,
including an early Stroustrup. The Java book from the '90s was a slender
little thing compared to the huge later additions, and the Python 2.x
references weren't too useful.

otoh, the C and POSIX books were as valid as ever.