Sup prog. I was just curious as to what is the most obsolete or useless programming language you know.
I myself learned Atari BASIC in high school, and regret my time wasted to this day. I have yet to come across something BASIC does that can't be done better, faster or more efficiently in C, Perl, etc. BASIC's only impact on the world of programming as far as I'm concerned is that it taught kids to write sloppy code way before Java did.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
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Anonymous2008-02-14 11:32
*/prog/
Disregard, cocks, etc.
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Anonymous2008-02-14 11:39
>>1
I learned some Prolog at university, and it was just incredibly irritating to use for anything outside a narrow range of problems. I haven't used it since, and never intend to again.
OP here. If you guys could offer a little background on how/why you learned whatever language you did, I'd appreciate it... even if only because I find stuff like that interesting
Prolog is awesome. Most people hate it because it's so much unlike all other forms of programming. Another thing is that solutions in Prolog are usually very concise. You actually spend a lot more time thinking than LOL TYPING CODE AWAY.
My only problem with it is that after a while, things tend to either work or break randomly without anyone really understanding how.
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Anonymous2008-02-14 18:06
in order:
1- prolog
2- lisp
3- java
>My only problem with it is that after a while, things tend to either work or break randomly without anyone really understanding how.
>>37
So, you were too dumb to understand Prolog or Lisp, then you just threw Java in there to sound cool, am I correct?
Failure.
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Anonymous2008-02-14 18:55
>>36 My only problem with it is that after a while, things tend to either work or break randomly without anyone really understanding how.
Yep, that's what I meant
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Anonymous2008-02-14 19:42
>>30
Oh god, your not that stupid german fuck, are you?
I use OpenScript at work. I swear to God, I've never seen anything like this.
First of all, there are only variables and arrays. That's all the typing there is. You can assign a number, a string, or an object to any variable.
The object-oriented part is designed to be used by mental deficients: instead of "object.member" it's "member OF object". Instead of "this->member" it's "MY member". Instead of "function(*this)" it's "function(SELF)".
It's like a goddamn retarded Visual BASIC.
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Anonymous2008-02-14 21:08
- all except C
It's all I ever needed (well, plus some scripting languages but they're not real programming languages).
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Anonymous2008-02-14 22:12
probably apple basic, I've used it a fair bit when I'm screwing around on the ][c, but that hardly counts as useful 24 years later
My own programming language I invented. I call it ABC. It uses three instructions. A B and C.
A - increment the accumulator
B - decrement the accumulator
C - print out accumulator as a number.
So for example, printing out 1337 would be:
acaaccaaaac
My phone number would be:
aaaaacbbbbcaacbbbbbbbbbbcaaaaaaaaaacaaaaacbbbbbbbbbbbcaaacaaacc
Actually, aacaac. It's a syntactic sugar for a while loop, if you look closer.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:01
>>66
No, that's printing out the number 4. Here's some basic tasts for you to do in ABC:
1. Print "Hello, world!"
2. Calculate the sum of all prime numbers up to 100.
3. Predict what >>69 will say.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:01
Thats the beauty of ABC programming. No calculations. You can show the result of PI if you felt like coding forever. I also extended ABC greatly in ABC-AT (Advanced Text).
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:02
>>68
>Calculate the sum of all prime numbers up to 100.
I would love to see that.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:03
ABC is not a programming language. It's just a retarded way to count.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:04
>>69 Thats the beauty of ABC programming. No programming.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:04
>>68,70
Ok.
aaaaaaacaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacaaaaaaaccaaa
cbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaacaaacbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
c
Where C outputs ASCII.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 17:56
Ok this shit is just plain retarded. Especially when it comes to outputting ascii characters.
To print the letter 'l' as the first letter of the first word i would have to have 108 a instructions.
I'm writing ;;The ABC Programming Language~~. Expect the release in a week.
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Anonymous2008-04-02 15:37
I'm going to go wit logo. Although making the turtle move in crazy patterns is spiritually soothing, I have yet to find an ENTERPRISE job where I can make use of this.
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Anonymous2008-04-02 17:34
You do know that Logo is a Lisp like language? The drawing turtle of Logo is completely optional. Anywhere you can use Lisp, you can also use Logo.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 4:47
FORTRAN. What do I apply that knowledge to these days?
I have no use anymore for my l33t 16-bit assembly skills - damn you monolithic OS:s, damn you Intel, damn you progress.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 14:28
.net in general
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Anonymous2008-04-03 16:36
ruby on rails
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Anonymous2008-04-03 16:43
>>18
This may surprise you, but I use French everyday to read my copy of Structures et Interprétation des Programmes Informatiques and to troll french canadian faggots.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 17:09
BASIC obviously, learned it by myself when I was 15 (first language I learned too). It is really useless, but when you don't know shit, it's a good way to start coding "basic" stuff. I eventually moved to real shit.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 18:06
>>89
Don't mess with quebecers, they'll fuck your shit up.
class sha256{
public static void Main(){
Console.WriteLine(BitConverter.ToString((new SHA256Managed()).ComputeHash(System.Console.OpenStandardInput())).Replace("-",""));
}
}
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Anonymous2008-04-04 4:47
Haskell, LISP
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Anonymous2008-04-04 5:10
>>98
Funniest thing about those is that they don't even exist in toy languages.
What, cryptography? Did you mean: calculating factorials?
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Anonymous2008-04-04 9:32
>>100
Implementing cryptographic algorithms yourself is a fun exercise. I once implemented DES in Scheme.