Favorite programming languages?

Half our coursework for GCSE Computing was to implement some form of cryptography in an Excel spreadsheet. It was an interesting assignment.

malmon73 wrote

Half our coursework for GCSE Computing was to implement some form of cryptography in an Excel spreadsheet. It was an interesting assignment.

I had to pull values from a .csv file into python and sort it with 3D lists. It was so frustrating trying to complete since the servers was constantly crashing throughout the weeks of making it. And even then my 2 prior coursework's had missing data from the server errors.

tn5421 wrote

Messing with excel sounds like a pain in the ass, honestly.

Pretty much all of mine ended up being done in VBA anyway

Mainly I fw Java and C#.
That's all really. I know more but those are my fav. 😉

nerd wrote
Hikari wrote

totally not python <3

oh good, because Python is complete trash

u fookin wot

mine made me learn actionscript, even though flash was already dead at the time and learning actionscript would offer no usefulness after school.

malmon73 wrote
nerd wrote
Hikari wrote

totally not python <3

oh good, because Python is complete trash

u fookin wot

PYTHON IS COMPLETE TRASH

Hahahaha you're all boasting about your 20th and 21st century programming languages... Try a real language, like MicroCode.

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nerd wrote
malmon73 wrote
nerd wrote
Hikari wrote

totally not python <3

oh good, because Python is complete trash

u fookin wot

PYTHON IS COMPLETE TRASH

Come at me bro, python is nice and readable and cool.

Vlad wrote

Hahahaha you're all boasting about your 20th and 21st century programming languages... Try a real language, like MicroCode.

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It actually looks kinda simple from what you've shown there...

Vlad wrote

Hahahaha you're all boasting about your 20th and 21st century programming languages...  Try a real language, like MicroCode.

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That looks very easy to pick up to begin writing basic programs with.

Python, Bash, TypeScript, F#, Golang and C++.

I'm also looking into Crystal. Not sure how I feel about it, because I don't particularly like Ruby's syntax, but it seems interesting enough.

malmon73 wrote
Senpai wrote
RX14 wrote

I love ruby, it's so nice and easy to develop in. If you want a fast ruby, check out crystal.

I'm slowly starting to love crystal, definitely one of the newer languages I want to see take off.

"The compiler is written in Crystal."
That for some reason blows the hell out of my mind.

TypeScript's compiler is written in TypeScript as well. It shouldn't be too hard to comprehend; they just write the compiler in its language, and compile it with the old compiler.

Equinox wrote

I don't particularly like Ruby's syntax

what's not to love about ruby's syntax?

Senpai wrote
Equinox wrote

I don't particularly like Ruby's syntax

what's not to love about ruby's syntax?

More or less it's naming scheme, especially with keywords. Another thing I dislike about Ruby is it's speed and over all performance.

Don't bring up Crystal, I know it's a thing, but it's different from Ruby since they're not completely the same syntax wise (e.g. you can run ruby programs with crystal, but not all crystal programs can be executed using Ruby's interpreter)

Equinox wrote
Senpai wrote
Equinox wrote

I don't particularly like Ruby's syntax

what's not to love about ruby's syntax?

Don't bring up Crystal, I know it's a thing, but it's different from Ruby since they're not completely the same syntax wise (e.g. you can run ruby programs with crystal, but not all crystal programs can be executed using Ruby's interpreter)

Actually this isn't true, crystal has a lot of incompatibilities with ruby. It's aimed to feel like ruby without having to be backwards compatible, so they can overhaul the standard library with a better API. For example accessing an array by index will return the value or throw an exception, instead of ruby which will return the value or nil. Also numerous changes the the stdlib.

I personally like ruby a lot, but I love crystal for being "ruby but better".