Aight, give me your programming language chain of development.
Use a prefix, - for just a little, + for a whole lot, and you can repeat.
For myself, the kind of reply I'm looking for, my own programming language chain, in the next post.
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-BASIC (mostly I played collossal cave)
-Forth (first real language)
-6502 (first of a dozen different assemblers)
+Forth (hardcore, expert level)
-Fortran
-C
-Pascal (Turbo, then Delphi)
-80x86 (a fucking nightmare)
+C
++Forth (published library writer)
+C++
-Python (a couple projects in the oughties)
+Java (kicking and screaming)
+Kotlin (java except you only have to say things once)
Assemblers spread all through the Forth periods, cuz I became an expert implementor of Forth on new CPU's.
I mean, there a couple of - - things, too. I've played with Lisp, played with Modula, played with LogLan, played with Rust one time for almost an hour.
But none of those justify a proper "-", so I didn't mention them.
And that's a career. I'm retired, and don't code for a living any more.
My favorites, across that stretch?
Forth. The 68k. C++ before template meta-programming. Kotlin.
I code almost everything today in Kotlin.
@GeePawHill
Have you looked at C++ in the last decade. what used to require template meta programming is just "normal" C++ constexpr code. the language got simpler to use, while becoming more powerful. However, classic OOP with virtual is kind of an anti-pattern and should/can be encapsulated, simpler static polymorphism and value-based/functional programming instead
@PeterSommerlad Honest answer: "fuck no". :)
@GeePawHill how is there no Perl on that list, this is a travesty
@darkuncle I did a gig 10 years ago in a Perl shop. I was fired, for reasons unrelated to Perl, but I was like, upside, I don't have to roll Perl any more. :)
