James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Just out of morbid curiosity: what about a full ANSI PL/I? > > (And the mere fact that I'm asking ages me.)
mu! (unasking makes you younger?! :) )A ancient languages i've used but not in quite a long time now. COBOL, SNOBOL, ALGOL, LISP of all of them i actually wrote production code in Pascal, assembler, COBOL and C (with embedded SQL). i also wrote a ton of code in C for classwork and that was the main language i "thought" in. some of those projects were quite large (write a compiler, assembler, linking-loader, interpreter, OS, editor, multiprocessor microcode simulator, etc.) i'm not sure anyone actually teaches these that much these days. for most of my projects here i mostly did either C or shell scripts. recently i started picking up Python and it has been ok so far, but there is still much about OOP that i don't fully understand. at a full time effort i think it takes several years to really get a language. since i'm not doing this full time i expect by the time i get to retirement age i'll have got it down well enough. my first Python program i don't consider OOP much at all, but it went quickly enough. next winter i hope to revisit it and see what i can do to make it a better structured program and more OOP. i'm too busy in the summer to really put much into learning new things unless it is something quick that will stick. songbird
