{"id":251,"date":"2006-09-18T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2006-09-18T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:07:01","slug":"programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this interesting meme from Tim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. What was the first language that you learned\/used?<\/strong>
\nCommodore Basic V2 (the one included with the Commodore 64).<\/p>\n

2. What is your favorite language and why?<\/strong>
\nAda95\/2005. Because is an industrial strength language that is HIGHLY readable and could be good enough to serve as a first language. And even better, you can have an ISO certified compiler for your platform (GCC’s GNAT) that is able to produce binary code at a speed comparable with C (I found it: 16K iterations of Erathostenes’ Sieve had similar times in both C and ADA).<\/p>\n

3. What is you least favorite and why?<\/strong>
\nCOBOL; too dense, wordy, and clunky. Another one would be Perl, because it looks like garbled text \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

4. What language would you like to learn next?<\/strong>
\nI would like to keep learning Ada95\/2005. Then, perhaps Python. Also, I would like to be good at shell scripting and awk.<\/p>\n

5. What language do you have no desire to ever learn?<\/strong>
\nJava! I hate it with a passion because it has a c-like syntax, an thoroughly bloated and inefficient virtual machine, and because it is not Free Software.<\/p>\n

Tim: BTW, FORTRAN could be made good with the RATFOR preprocessor employed in the famous Software Tools<\/em> book.<\/p>\n

6. What language do you think is the best to start learning programming with?<\/strong>
\nADA. Because you have excellent, industrial class tools, it is reasonably easy, it is readable, and it teaches you good programming habits. Python would be good, too.<\/p>\n

7. What method you prefer, functional or OO?<\/strong>
\nI hate object-oriented programming. I would like a procedural language better. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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