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Euro-commuter replied

20 July 2007, 10:03
Originally posted by wendigo100

Wasn't there a language called BASTARD or something similar?

I have heard the word applied to some.

I do COBOL, RPG, and of course God's own language, 360 BAL.
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wendigo100 replied

20 July 2007, 09:52
Wasn't there a language called BASTARD or something similar?
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Churchill replied

20 July 2007, 09:50
Originally posted by Addanc

C/C++, PL/M386, ADA, PASCAL (long time since I used the last two).
Assembler x86, 68k, PowerPC.

C & C++ are on the poll.
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Zorba replied

20 July 2007, 09:45
Originally posted by Churchill

.NET is .NOT a programming language.

It is, however, the future.
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Addanc replied

20 July 2007, 09:40
C/C++, PL/M386, ADA, PASCAL (long time since I used the last two).
Assembler x86, 68k, PowerPC.
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oxtailsoup replied

20 July 2007, 08:44
Only the very latest state of the art technologies I'm proud to say...

Cobol
Retrieve 4GL (Sage)
ABAP (SAP)
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wendigo100 replied

20 July 2007, 08:38
Originally posted by Gibbon

Ada
CORAL66
JOVIAL

That takes me back. Defence in the good old cost-plus days.
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dotnetter replied

20 July 2007, 08:26
Originally posted by Cowboy Bob

.NET is effectively a VM running bytecode, which is exactly what I said. Along with the fact that another programming language lumped in with Web Scripting also uses this technique.

Yes your right like the JVM the CLR uses stack-based object-oriented bytecode, and natively supports runtime code generation using the .Net Framework classes in the System.Reflect.Emit namespace.
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Cowboy Bob replied

20 July 2007, 07:28
Originally posted by Churchill

.NET is .NOT a programming language.

.NET is effectively a VM running bytecode, which is exactly what I said. Along with the fact that another programming language lumped in with Web Scripting also uses this technique.
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Churchill replied

20 July 2007, 07:00
Originally posted by Cowboy Bob

Oh dear. Someone needs to learn what bytecode is and that .NET uses it as well as another popular programming language...

.NET is .NOT a programming language.
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BrilloPad replied

20 July 2007, 06:20
Who cares what the language is as long as its in IB. Thats the place to be.
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Moscow Mule replied

20 July 2007, 06:19
RPG IV, III and II. Along with a touch of CL and Java script for Websphere.

II is a complete POS, with it's poxy logic cycle. Thankfully most people on the i5 have come out of the dark ages now.
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Diver replied

19 July 2007, 22:38
Programming?

Where's the TV remote option
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NoddY replied

19 July 2007, 20:11
I program nuclear missile silos in raw binary using my brain waves.

Threaded.
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RSoles replied

19 July 2007, 19:48
Well, I voted for c, not c++

But also
ADA
Assembler, Intel 8080, 8086 8751
Motorola 680x0, PIC, the other PIC (bitslice one from the seventies)
Zilog Z80
Coral 66
Labwindows/CVI
neuron c
perl
even VB
pascal, delphi
coupla' others
Yes, Fortran, Algol 68

I once wrote one line of cobol (added a couple of decimal places to
square root of two)

I've even recently had an 8080 contract.

RS
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