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To: AppyPappy

Once you have a few good languages under your belt, picking up another is fairly simple.

I have the same list, minus Java but adding PowerShell scripting. Used to write Speed code. Have dabbled in PL/N and IBM assembler.


39 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:11 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: gitmo

I wrote in ALGOL once. Once. Never again.

Unix shell scripting reminds me of the old days of COBOL. Unreliable variables. Writing “if [ $A -eq 0 ] then” doesn’t ensure a proper response because whether $A is numeric or not depends on what you had for breakfast that day.
There are a lot of workarounds in *nix.
I had to learn Perl and PHP when a student programmer abandoned a critical system in a user department where he had no backup. I guess they never imagined he would graduate.


69 posted on 02/01/2013 5:36:33 AM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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