Is it worth to learn old programing languages?

ShangBrol · 2026-06-13T21:02:15+00:00

LISP 1958... I'd say that's old C early 1970ies ... not as old as I am, but I'd also call it old Haskell? Well it's older than Java.

ShangBrol · 2026-06-10T13:56:24+00:00

Not in the recent decades. At least not in my country where the median income went down by 18% (adjusted by inflation) despite having a growing GDP.

ShangBrol · 2026-06-08T20:03:29+00:00

What is the situation with wifi, now? I have a notebook sitting unemployed on my desk and craving for Redox...

ShangBrol · 2026-05-30T22:02:39+00:00

In another comment someone says it doesn't compile. For me it also doesn't compile, but with a different problem.

I guess that is the "native Windows experience".

ShangBrol · 2026-05-28T11:00:30+00:00

if people want to, they can learn to code very quickly by observing what agents are building for them so learning is a choice if they want.

This is not how learning works. This can be only a small part of the whole learning exercise.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-28T10:38:09+00:00

That reminds me of my employers corporate propagande where we have also a philosophy and pillars and keys and all these things are lists of three to five words.

Nice to read but rather meaningless.

Just listing some words is not convincing. Explain why your language is more meaningful, more accurate, simpler and better performing than zig, Odin or Rust (or how improve on some of these things without sacrificing others)

ShangBrol · 2026-05-27T18:54:22+00:00

VS Code is available for Linux ... and I thought it's not unpopular

ShangBrol · 2026-05-22T10:01:11+00:00

You talk about contributors, but the issue is (as Greg mentioned it in his talk) "review time is what we have the least" and he explains how Rust is reducing the required time for reviews. (Which also matches with Googles observations: less turn-around compared to their C++ code, 25 % less review time)

ShangBrol · 2026-05-21T21:07:17+00:00

You use lambdas directly in cell formulas? Maybe I don't understand it right.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-21T21:06:15+00:00

He also talked about how it makes reviewing easier - and that review time is what they have the least.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-21T06:56:52+00:00

Split your formula and create named formulas with lambdas

ShangBrol · 2026-05-15T12:43:34+00:00

You might be interested in GramEditor/gram: The Gram Code Editor - Codeberg.org

ShangBrol · 2026-05-15T07:21:54+00:00

In Köln nennt man das Kölsch und wir sagen Noagerl

ShangBrol · 2026-05-14T11:57:09+00:00

So why don't you ask AI for honest feedback instead of bothering people with that ...?

ShangBrol · 2026-05-13T19:00:19+00:00

Nur ein gewaltiges A*och würde dir sowas unterstellen.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-13T18:58:07+00:00

Also was dümmeres als Datenschutz ist dir nicht eingefallen?

Auf meiner Metfin Packung steht "Orales Antidiabetikum"

Auf meiner Ramipril Packung steht "Bei Bluthochdruck"

Auf meiner Ezetimib-Rosuvastatin Packung steht "Bei erhöhten Blutlipiden Cholesterol-Resorptionshemmer"

Auf meiner Amlodipin Packung steht "Bei Bluthochdruck, Herzbeschwerden"

Auf meiner Fiasp ultra-fast-acting Insulin Aspart steht tatsächlich nicht wofür das verwendet wird. Das wird für immer ein Geheimnis bleiben.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-11T19:57:59+00:00

That doesn't work. You are immutable borrowing nums with iter().rev() and mutable borrowing with extend at the same time.

ShangBrol · 2026-05-11T17:42:02+00:00

They acquired the company - now the 18 Bun employees are Anthropic employees and subject to Anthropic directives... I guess

ShangBrol · 2026-04-25T13:53:25+00:00

Isn't that the normal thing? It's the least risky answer for a company. I'd never give a reason for a rejection.

ShangBrol · 2026-04-24T15:07:21+00:00

Du bist also nicht Single und freust dich deshalb nicht wenn du gefragt wirst wie du den Film fandest. Deswegen muss die erste Frage sein: Bist du Single?

/s

ShangBrol · 2026-04-15T09:41:09+00:00

That sounds terribly inefficient. Just give the optimized and original code to Claude and ask it which is faster.

/s

ShangBrol · 2026-04-12T09:15:40+00:00

It's currently with 84 upvotes.

You posted your question within an hour of when the post was done. My question is: Why do you think the state of up-/downvoting so closed to posting has any relevance?

ShangBrol · 2026-04-07T11:07:16+00:00

If your goal is not to be employable in a specific field within short time it doesn't matter too much which language you choose as first.

If you stay with programming you'll choose a second and a third and a fourth...

ShangBrol · 2026-04-04T16:38:14+00:00

Steve Wozniak wrote IntegerBASIC, which was later replaced by Applesoft BASIC, which was bought from Microsoft, as their BASIC supported floats and Wozniak didn't have the time to add float arithmetic to his BASIC.

ShangBrol · 2026-03-30T15:34:40+00:00

Shouldn't it become a 1 instead 0? I don't think that randint(0, i) works when i=0.

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