Re: Programming Languages (was: New Developers)

"One of the more esoteric languages I've done quite a bit of programming in is APL. ;-)"

Now there is a truly write-only language! I remember some debates in Byte about APL years ago where one of the protagonists finally admitted he had just been asked to modify one of his own programs and found he couldn't work out why/how it worked!


Jon Paris

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On Jun 8, 2018, at 5:56 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/08/2018 11:59:06
AM:

To go back to the old days when the term "big iron bigot" was used to
describe many COBOL developers, and later was applied to RPG developers
as well, I would say there are a vast larger number of "PC bigots" that
feel only the small machine matters and the larger ones have no value.
They are only Java, only VB, only PHP, and such. The number of multi-
language, primary RPG, developers is much larger than most think and I
profess that, again using your reply as the example, a good RPG
programmer will be able to pick up whatever other language fairly
easily, if they have not already done so with one or more other
languages.

Yep, I've programmed in over 22 languages but RPG-III and JAVA are
not included. ;-) Doesn't mean I couldn't pick up JAVA. It just
means no one has ever asked me to create anything for them in JAVA. ;-)
One of the more esoteric languages I've done quite a bit of programming
in is APL. ;-)


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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