Actions
Forum Thread Details
  • State Not Answered
  • Replies 24 replies
  • Subscribers 477 subscribers
  • Views 1653 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Related

What are you programming in?

Catwell

What are you programming in these days? For me it's Assembly and some C/C++. But it seems that it's becoming time to move past all the old tried and true languages for the new. Now you have to know C#.net, Java, and whatever syntax you need for whatever new processor you have to work with. For example, you can't be a straight HTML programmer anymore, you need to know Flash, SQL scripting, CSS, Shockwave, HTML5, and whatever the flavour of the month is, to a high degree of proficiency. It's a lot to know. So, how do you choose what to learn? A few people I knew several years ago were learning Python and Fortran from some reason or other, boasting it's where Engineers have to migrate. Neither of them used those languages. Now they are studying Java and Objective C. To avoid this cycle of learn then learn another, what should we all program in?

 

Cabe

Parents
  • 0

    I program mainly in C but then I use mainly embedded 8 bit processors.  I use assembler when I need to for speed, and for hardware specific sequences where I want to ensure things are performed in an exact sequence and not optimised.  On the PC I've used a bit of C++, Visual basic, and also visual basic in EXCEL which I've used to open a com port in excel and import data directly into cells to debug an algorithm (think poor persons matlab.)  We learned Modula II in Uni, and never used it since.

     

    Some language decisions are based fashion. What will happen to flash based websites now that the all powerfull apple doesn't support it on it's ipad?  Some people will move away from flash entirely because they want their website to be ipad compatable and want the same code to run across several platforms.  I've been looking at using some flash on a web interface to get the fancy graphics and animation running that marketing and sales wants because at the moment the web configuration is too technical looking?  Now flash is out because people might want to use it on the ipad, oh and can they have an app, but without increasing the budget...

     

    At the end of the day it's what gets the job done, and also falling in line what the rest of the company are using at the time.

    Dan.

Reply
  • 0

    I program mainly in C but then I use mainly embedded 8 bit processors.  I use assembler when I need to for speed, and for hardware specific sequences where I want to ensure things are performed in an exact sequence and not optimised.  On the PC I've used a bit of C++, Visual basic, and also visual basic in EXCEL which I've used to open a com port in excel and import data directly into cells to debug an algorithm (think poor persons matlab.)  We learned Modula II in Uni, and never used it since.

     

    Some language decisions are based fashion. What will happen to flash based websites now that the all powerfull apple doesn't support it on it's ipad?  Some people will move away from flash entirely because they want their website to be ipad compatable and want the same code to run across several platforms.  I've been looking at using some flash on a web interface to get the fancy graphics and animation running that marketing and sales wants because at the moment the web configuration is too technical looking?  Now flash is out because people might want to use it on the ipad, oh and can they have an app, but without increasing the budget...

     

    At the end of the day it's what gets the job done, and also falling in line what the rest of the company are using at the time.

    Dan.

Children
No Data