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Is there any reason he would have heard of those? They're all pretty fringe, arguably moreso than Forth, for some of them. Some of these do look neat: I've had
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Is there any reason he would have heard of those? They're all pretty fringe, arguably moreso than Forth, for some of them.
Some of these do look neat: I've had an interest in both Ada and Oberon, although I haven't been able to get over the verbosity and unpleasant syntax of either (it's not COBOL, or anything, but it's not nice).
OTOH, I am immediately suspicious of any product that claims it's professional and also has BASIC in the name...
- jnbiche 10y agoAda is not fringe. It's used by many large companies, although less and less these for new projects these days. There are some huge Ada codebases being maintained in industry, particularly in the aviation industry.
- pjmlp 10y agoActually, I might get the wrong picture but from FOSDEM talks and high integrity conferences programms, I get the opposite view.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThe same can be said of Lisp and Forth. Would you call them fringe?
- pjmlp 10y ago> OTOH, I am immediately suspicious of any product that claims it's professional and also has BASIC in the name... For many years the Elektor magazine and a few other competing ones, had the listings of electronic stuff done in Assembly, Basic and Turbo Pascal. Before Raspberry PI was a thing, many developers were using Basic STAMP. https://www.parallax.com/catalog/microcontrollers/basic-stamp https://www.parallax.com/catalog/microcontrollers/basic-stam...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI'm aware, but... urgh. Yuck. I don't think BASIC causes brain damage, but I also don't think it's a very nice thing to work in. Although I suppose it does depend on the dialect, to an extent...
- kjs3 10y agoFor decades the primary language used in the HP instrument world (everything from controlling power supplies to logic analyzers to medical instruments) has been HP Basic. Very professional stuff indeed.