[Cialug] Question?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

PHP, bash shell... 

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 13:40, Christopher Freeman wrote:
> Claus wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how many programming languages are out there but there 
> > are quite a few obscure ones that are used for production in certain 
> > areas or shops.  Pascal was never much being advertised as a 
> > production language but instead has always been seen as a teaching 
> > language by the general IT population.  So the hype was never that big 
> > about it except for a time at educational institutions.  Besides my 
> > personal opinion is that programming languages are over hyped and that 
> > often decisions for one language over the other are made for the wrong 
> > reasons.
> >
> > I did run into a guy once that swore that Pascal was the greatest 
> > language and that he was in a shop that used it for production stuff. 
> > Unfortunately our encounter was only brief and I wasn't able to sit 
> > down and talk to him extensively about it.
> >
> >   Claus
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> My ex-cousin-once-removed-in-law used to program in Forth as a 
> free-lance programmer. That's pretty esoteric. He swore by it. I'll 
> never know why.
> 
> My old boss wanted to port all of our stuff to Pascal after seeing a 
> Kylix demonstration. I never could figure out if he was serious. I hope 
> not. Fortunately, he's not making the decisions around here anymore.
> 
> I'd be interested to see if Lisp or Scheme are being used as production 
> languages anywhere. I know of at least one AI company around, but I 
> don't know what they use as their language(s) of choice.
> 
> What kind of programming (esp. Linux/Unix programming) do people on the 
> list do, and with what languages? I do Unix commandline application 
> development in C, C++ (very small amounts) and Perl primarily.
> 
> Chris
> 
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