Sujet : Re: OT: Programming Languages
De : blockedofcourse (at) *nospam* foo.invalid (Don Y)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 01. Nov 2024, 23:47:40
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On 11/1/2024 11:25 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
My 'best' language is ALGOL. The modern equivalent is PHP which, with a
bit of improvement, could be made almost as good as ALGOL
I really enjoyed Algol (68). But, tended to require a bit
more keystrokes to get a problem solved. Considerably better than
Pascal and PL/1 (the other "teaching languages" in use at the time).
C is a win if you can think in terms of hardware; especially
if you are directly interfacing to hardware (hard to imagine
writing a VMM system in any other HLL). I can't imagine knowing
*where* to insert barriers in other HLLs (will the compiler be
able to handle all use cases for me?)
I use Limbo as a scripting language as it has the familiarity
of C without the pointer issue (safety for non-programmers),
adds support for concurrency, GC and *lists* (annoying to
have to reinvent for other languages... esp those that don't
support pointers!)