Re:Say Something Nice About Every Language You’ve Used
by Dylanlacey on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:23AM
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In Order:
Logo: HOLY SHIT I'M 8 AND I CAN MAKE THE COMPUTER DO SHIT!
QBasic: Easy to get started and allowed me to write text games for myself
AGT: DOUBLE HOLY SHIT I CAN WRITE MY OWN TEXT ADVENTURES?!
ZZTOOP: You gave the gamers a language to write their own levels. Freaking Schweet.
VB 4: Having controls is kinda nice!
Delphi: I don't remember much. I think I liked... That I was better then anyone else in my highschool class.
Java: Lots of libraries and lots of people in the ecosystem. Plus, I got good at typing.
Motorola Assembler: Hackity Hack! Whoo, LEDS! Made me appreciate higher level constructs, and also gave me a greater understanding of CPUs and how I am really standing on the shoulders of giants.
C: Very powerful access to the OS.
Haskell: Functional Programming hurt my brain but gave me an appreciation for the elegant.
Prolog: I just love the "Define Solution: Get Implementation" nature of Prolog.
Groovy: Having live scripting makes it much easier to do work with JMeter, which is otherwise annoying difficult.
Ruby: Makes things easy, unverbose.
C#: Lots of libraries, more cool language features in every version, the best IDE I've ever used. Not as verbose as Java but just as accepted.
Scala: Woah. SO much fun. I'm really liking how enjoyable and simple it makes solving problems. My new favourite toy.
AGT: DOUBLE HOLY SHIT I CAN WRITE MY OWN TEXT ADVENTURES?! ZZTOOP: You gave the gamers a language to write their own levels. Freaking Schweet.
VB 4: Having controls is kinda nice!
Delphi: I don't remember much. I think I liked... That I was better then anyone else in my highschool class.
Java: Lots of libraries and lots of people in the ecosystem. Plus, I got good at typing.
Motorola Assembler: Hackity Hack! Whoo, LEDS! Made me appreciate higher level constructs, and also gave me a greater understanding of CPUs and how I am really standing on the shoulders of giants.
C: Very powerful access to the OS.
Haskell: Functional Programming hurt my brain but gave me an appreciation for the elegant.
Prolog: I just love the "Define Solution: Get Implementation" nature of Prolog.
Groovy: Having live scripting makes it much easier to do work with JMeter, which is otherwise annoying difficult.
Ruby: Makes things easy, unverbose.
C#: Lots of libraries, more cool language features in every version, the best IDE I've ever used. Not as verbose as Java but just as accepted.
Scala: Woah. SO much fun. I'm really liking how enjoyable and simple it makes solving problems. My new favourite toy.