Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Al Boldi ha scritto:
> > Giuliano Colla wrote:
> >> I've been earning my bread and butter developing computer applications
> >> for 40 years now (my God, how old I've become! :-) )
> >
> > Wow, that's impressive.
> >
> > Maybe you could share some of your experience regarding these question:
> >
> > What languages did you use?
>
> Compiled languages:
>
> 1) Assembler from HP minicomputers to IBM mainframes (including an
> incredible Siemens computer, which at start-up was typing an obscure
> message in german: if you just typed return, it would take the default
> action, i.e. assume a new installation and reformat its hard disks! :-)
> ) , and then micros for all the Intel Family, from 4004 (it was a
> nightmare, three instructions to read a memory location but with good
> macros you could get away) to nowadays Pentium
> 2) Fortran (different flavors in time)
> 3) Algol 60
> 4) Intel's PLM's: PLM48 PLM51 PLM80 PLM86 PLM386
> 5) C
> 6) C++
> 7) Delphi Pascal
> 8) Free Pascal
>
> Interpreted Languages:
>
> 9) Basic
> 10) Visual Basic
> 11) Python
> 12) Tcl/Tk
>
> Possibly I've left out some, but that's more or less the picture.
>
> > Which one is the best?
:
:
> Among OOPL doubtlessly Pascal.
Why?
> > How does OOP affect development (pros/cons)?
:
:
> The con's are that it may encourage lazyness. You may end up using an
> object because it's ready made, taking advantage of a minimal part of
> its features, and making your code bigger and slower, and maybe harder
> to debug, when a small subroutine could have served the same purpose.
Good point.
> (I can detect sarcasm at least since as
> long as I have been programming, but your questions deserved a reply
> nonetheless).
Actually, there should be nothing sarcastic about trying to learn from
somebody more experienced.
Just one more question: In another thread you said Java is ugly, what about
the language, and how does it compare to pascal?
Thanks!
--
Al
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