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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Anonymous2008-04-02 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.