Techokami

Don't use C: If you have any decent alternative whatsoever
Don't use C++: Ever. I mean it. I will fight you.
Don't use Rust: Unless you like being a human compiler and want to die of RSI or old age while trying to write anything nontrivial
Don't use Python: Significant whitespace will bring curses on you and your house unto seven generations
Don't use Ada: You don't want the DoD to start getting ideas.
Don't use Zig: comptime is just macros for people who think C is a reasonable language
Don't use D: Walter Bright is a cryptofascist dipshit.
Don't use Javascript: Please.
Don't use Perl: Unless you hate your coworkers.
Don't use Lua: Unless you hate yourself.
Don't use Ruby: You are not Matz.
Don't use Forth: You are not Chuck Moore.
Don't use Fortran: You are not CERN.
Don't use Lisp: Are you some kind of pervert who gets sexually excited by parens?
Don't use Cobol: Unless you want to make absolute boatloads of money doing the worst programming imaginable. ...hm.
Do use: The one true programming language - 6502 assembly.

ETPC @ETPC2/3/2023, 3:32 AM

UnrealScript is fine, understood

Techokami @techokami2/3/2023, 4:45 AM

As is 68000 assembly, GDScript, TypeScript, ZScript, and PHP. Got it

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Fluffies🐾 & ☉∇ ΘΔ Ⓥ @Fluffies2/3/2023, 3:40 AM

Re: You are not CERN.

For a short time, Fluffies were working with their physics professor who works at CERN! And we were actually learning about the software framework they use. It was all mostly C++ with Python doing some organising tasks. It's also all a bit hacked together! Then, uh. Fluffies dropped out of college.

So we'd like to believe we were a little bit CERN for a little while!

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF2/3/2023, 3:44 AM

Okay that is cool as hell. And yeah Python has displaced Fortran in a lot of scientific computing so that makes sense.

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi2/3/2023, 5:50 AM

Research coders fucking love python (go figure. It was designed by a research coder iirc)

@AndreL2/3/2023, 6:58 AM

interpreted C++

Fluffies🐾 & ☉∇ ΘΔ Ⓥ @Fluffies2/3/2023, 7:36 AM

Oh, gosh. That is a thing in ROOT, isn't it. We never had the opportunity to work with ROOT much; this was all a couple of weeks before dropping out. Only used the GUI app to explore .root files and look through graphs.

\phi @phi2/3/2023, 3:52 AM

6502 Assembly is vee cute, honestly. I used to play arounf wiff an appel II emulator and make tiny littel pwograms. I likedf that teh book I was using to learn said "well, if u wanna do math, like multiplication and division, u should use Basic, cuz it's like, too complicated to do it in assembly"