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Re:Sunsetting Atom by theteapot on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:11PM (#31673321)
> I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from.

Jesus, who are you?

Re:Sunsetting Atom by blagie on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:52PM (#31673939)
There are also a whole bunch of languages for:

- Describing levels in video games, which are primarily data with code mixed in

- Describing transformations of different sorts (e.g. the types of languages used in compilers for specifying a programming language parser, and then optimizations)

- Defining hardware (analogues to Spice, Verilog, and VHDL). Hardware can also include mechanical objects, as well more broadly, wetware (e.g. custom bacteria, a la Ginko Bioworks)

- Run on custom hardware (e.g. SIMD and MIMD platforms, similar to GPGPU)

- Are primarily mathematical (e.g. for describing control systems, neural network architectures, etc.)

... and so on.

Not all of this is a DOD/medical mess. A lot of DSLs are REALLY REALLY FUN.

Re:Sunsetting Atom by foldor on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:28PM (#31673548)
My guess based in my experience would a MUMPS developer for someone like Epic or Meditech. That code gives me nightmares whenever I see it.
Re:Sunsetting Atom by easrng on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:47PM (#31673858)
Still can barely believe MUMPS is real tbh, first saw it on TDWTF and I thought it was a joke at first.
Re:Sunsetting Atom by ternaryoperator on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:36PM (#31674624)
Coming from today's world, sure. But in 1966, a language with a built-in database was a godsend and there were no standard language conventions to adopt (C was still several years away and only COBOL and Fortran were in wide use).
Re:Sunsetting Atom by oneepic on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:44PM (#31673797)
What, like $$foo(3,4,@bar,"baz")?
Re:Sunsetting Atom by denysvitali on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:17PM (#31673385)
A brainfuck developer?
Re:Sunsetting Atom by behnamoh on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:37PM (#31674638)
Writing DSLs is not uncommon among Lisp developers.
Re:Sunsetting Atom by cupofpython on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:22PM (#31673456)
im guessing a very loyal employee to an enterprise company outside of tech - probably logistics
Re:Sunsetting Atom by tmp_anon_22 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:19PM (#31673420)
Retired? Or in Academia?
Re:Sunsetting Atom by generalizations on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:23PM (#31673476)
DoD?
Re:Sunsetting Atom by BryanBeshore on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:52PM (#31673944)
The name is Den. Snow Den.