Programming Languages

There's a litttle clue in there that tells me this is part of the threadedbot code.

There was me thinking threaded was a genuine human prat and all the time it's a bot. Congrats to the programmers - your threaded bot must be the most imaginative one around - certainly it's the most amusing - knocks spots off Elisa and the MilanBot.

Oh - neary forgot - the clue ..

rot repeat

zeitghost: Well, the IT ELSE THEN is pretty much just FORTHs way of doing things.
i.e.

 : verbose.equals?
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp = IF ." Yes, they are equal"
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp   ELSE ." No, they are not equal"
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp   THEN
;

For the truely different I would suggest the imaginative constructions one can create with BEGIN WHILE UNTIL etc. etc. construct, seriously useful.
i.e.

 hex : f* * e >>a ; : sq over dup f* ; 4666 dup negate do 4000 dup 2* negate do
 i j 1e begin 1- ?dup while -rot sq sq 2dup + 10000 < while - i + -rot f* 2* j +
 rot repeat 2drop drop bl else bl a + then emit 2drop 268 +loop cr 5de +loop

FUQWIT - Intergraph...

Jacko

M&S still use Model 204 and they often have to get Ausis to code it - my m8 Paul Dukes used to contract for them in M204. They tried to go Indian with it at one stage but I think that idea failed

Spod

Are you talking sailing chip :lol

Is it a french fry (sorry, freedom fry) or a hand cut chunky classic?

Clipper?

Bollox, The only Clipper worth knowing about is a chip!

Spod - In "I Know about it" mode!

Clipper - great language sadly missed.

What about FORTH?

You can use the curious construction IF ELSE THEN...

Magic.

I know TACL too.

Blo0dy awful language >D

M204

A little known but excellent language that had it's own relational database...

From back in my mainframe days - S3

Now, C++

Spod.

TACL !
who else here knows TACL ?

There is no one "best" language. The OO academics will say SmallTalk or something that no one in the industry uses.

Low level bit twiddlers will say C.

Dinosaurs on this BB will cite COBOL/FORTRAN or some valve driven assembler entered on punched cards.

Anyone with any sense will say C# V2.0

FORTRAN IV (1966) BECAUSEYOUCANTYPEEVERYTHINGINCAPITALSWITHOUTSPACES

And the ASSIGNED GOTO.

And the EQUIVALENCE statement.

Interested to canvass opinion as to what professionals in the field consider to be the best high-level programming language.

What, in your view, is the best language and why? Anything other than .NET?