Re: Language wars (6th September)

[Frank Derichsweiler <i31ade@kommsrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>]

Solomon Taibi wrote:
> 
> Roy Gardiner <gardinerr@dcslambert.agw.bt.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >1) You may not vote for the language you learned first as no. 1. So
> >'everyone always loves their first language best' is eliminated.
> 
> Not me.  The first language I learned was GWBASIC.  It's the best
> language (at least for me) for making my PC make funny sounds, but not
> much else.  Even for that it's not real good since all else must
> stop while the funny sounds are made.
> 
> >2) You may only vote for languages where you have good practical
> >experience
> 
> Categorize this as you will:
> 
> Most fun at college (undergraduate):  LISP
> 
> Most fun at college (graduate):  awk
> 
> Most ineresting at college (graduate):  C++
> 
> Easiest to program nontrivially:  Pascal
> 
> Most ways to do interesting things I don't know how to do any other
> way:  Assembler (8088 <old Intel>, 68000 <Apple>, and 370 <BAL>)
> 
> Most profitable to me personally,both before and after graduate
> school: PL/I on an IBM mainframe, with CICS and embedded SQL.
> 
> Second most profitible, but easiest to get
> an OK  job in a hurry: COBOL.
> COBOL means 
COmmon Badly Oriented Language, right ? ;-)

IMHO, Smalltalk is a *VERY GOOD* Language

Frank

> >| orwell     | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
> 
> OK, I'll bite.  What is "Orwell", beside my favorite English author?
> 
> --
> S. Taibi
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