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The most useless language you know?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 11:31

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?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 19:42

>>30
Oh god, your not that stupid german fuck, are you?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 19:53

>>41
"your" != "you're"

I'm a GRAMMAR NAZI

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 20:35

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.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 21:08

- all except C

It's all I ever needed (well, plus some scripting languages but they're not real programming languages).

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 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

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 22:31

ENTERPRISE JAVA

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-14 23:58

- all except C
It's all I ever learned (well, I tried learning other languages but I couldn't understand them).

fixed

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 5:34

brainfuck.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:14

la lojban.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:29

>>49
.ui mi talva la lojban.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:31

ko mo

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 9:45

mi amigos

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 16:37

3

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 16:54

Latin

Name: iaml33t 2008-02-15 16:55

WTF?

kthxbye

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 17:32

Java.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 18:31

LITHP

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 23:23

BBCODE

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:47

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

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:49

>>59
Oh God.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:50

>>59
Not Touring-complete.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:53

>>59 is GvR

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:54

>>59
Recommend adding instruction D: Print out accumulator as an ascii character.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:54

I'm writing an ABC compiler in Haskell right now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:55

>>59
Now calculate 2*2 in ABC.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:56

>>65
aaaac

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:57

Actually, aacaac. It's a syntactic sugar for a while loop, if you look closer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 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.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 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).

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 17:02

>>68
>Calculate the sum of all prime numbers up to 100.

I would love to see that.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 17:03

ABC is not a programming language. It's just a retarded way to count.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 17:04

>>69
Thats the beauty of ABC programming.  No programming.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 17:04

>>68,70
Ok.

aaaaaaacaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacaaaaaaaccaaa
cbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaacaaacbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbcbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
c


Where C outputs ASCII.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 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.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 17:59



<?php $a =$c =0 ;while(
! feof( STDIN) ){ $q .=
fgets(STDIN) ;}foreach(
str_split(preg_replace(
"{\s}","",strtolower($q
)))as $w){$c++;if($w ==
"a")$a++;elseif($w=="b"
)$a--;elseif($w=="c" ){
if(in_array("-a",$argv)
){echo chr  ($a  )  ; }
else echo  $a  ; } } ?>

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 18:02

>>75

$ abc.php
acaaccaaaac
^Z
1337

$ abc.php -a
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac
!

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 18:03

>>76
^Z didn't show up in the second example. hmm.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-02 8:59

>>74
What's the matter, too EXPERT for you?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-02 9:12

I'm writing ;;The ABC Programming Language~~. Expect the release in a week.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-02 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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