Copacetic

Visual C++ and C++ as distinct languages - Cheating!

Actually if I was honest I could count Suns C++ compiler, GCC++ and Visual C++ as three Languages:-)

Whatever about Sun and GNU, Visual C++ compelled you to use so many macros that the C++ part of the language all but disappeared. Ugh!

Oh I agree. Look away for a second and visual studio slips in 100 extra files packed to the gills with redundant stub code - “just in case you were thinking about slipping a DCOM-CORBA interface in” or for some such reason.

VC++ is also irritatingly standards-compliant when it suits them (eg hiding away the stdlib in the std:: namespace).

What’s your favourite of the above?

If it was me, I’d go with Perl / GC++ with Java a distant third.

We’re all horny for python in my current company Secantus.

For pure intellectual purity and the data/code interchange thang then its got to be Lisp.

If your punching the clock imperatively, then Ada. Learn a little bit and the rest all works the way you expect it too.

Had a brief and torrid fling with Perl but it ended badly and now we don’t talk.

Java works as long as you only plan to use a database, once you start doing file IO it stinks worse that two day old mackerel.

C++, the pain, the pain, make it go away.

C, honest hard working ditch diggers language but terrible for biggish programs.

C’mon Joe: One program?

One application and i’m listening but one program? My 3 year old can write one program

Hey Conor,

Are they looking for work? We’ll be hiring in August if they can write that one program in Python.

Joe.

Hi Joe:

Well he’s young and a little rough around the edges on most aspects of his
programing. But he’s probably worth hiring. You won’t have to pay him much — a bag of crisps and a can of fanta per day should do it!

Conor

Cool, he’s write on our price point. Send in his CV.

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