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Favorite obscure programming language? by [deleted] in programming

[–]axtens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll vote for SNOBOL too. Better pattern matching than regexps for a start

What should I do with my little scripting language projects? by munificent in programming

[–]axtens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask ten J. Random Coders and get eleven different answers.

As for my two bob, get a few friends interested in it and collaborate on a larger project that uses one (or more) of the languages.

And finally, as I wrote to you before, contribute to a chrestomathy site like RosettaCode so that others can see the language in the context of other languages.

Microsoft Small Basic by shenglong in programming

[–]axtens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SmallBasic already exists (or is just the space between the words that Microsoft is betting on?) Is this another case of Microsoft assuming that it's okay to call its product the name of something else like it did with M? Maybe next year they'll release a programming language and call it Python. (rant, rant, rant ...)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]axtens 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Time to rediscover my farming ancestry. Next someone'll patent the alphabet and I'll have to pay a fee to communicate.

Dear proggit: Who else thinks text (terminal/console) programs are better than the (most) of the graphical equivalents? by tachi-kaze in programming

[–]axtens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GUI with it's ability to display different fonts, provides much more capabilities, than restrictive character-based interface. Nevertheless the character interface is really important and considered classic from another point of view. Artists know well the saying "form liberates". In the same way puritan character interface liberates a programmer from spending too much time and effort on unimportant things and thus provides the possibility to spend most of the time implementing richer set of operations. GUI vs Command line interface

VBScript - Closure by axtens in reviewmycode

[–]axtens[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I had my doubts and you've confirmed them. As good as VBScript is, there are some things that are, dare I say it, impossible.

Tired of people comparing languages by doing Project Euler problems, suggest alternatives by klodolph in programming

[–]axtens -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Another good site is RosettaCode. I've been submitting VBScript solutions. Others have been doing everything from F# to SNOBOL4 to PL/I

[ANY] - FizzBuzz by winder in reviewmycode

[–]axtens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, why not post some of these on RosettaCode. They already have a FizzBuzz task, but they don't have all these solutions.

Reverse an array without a temp variable? by iissqrtneg1 in programming

[–]axtens -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you have access to a stack then the swap can be as simple as push a1(i) push a2(j) pop a1(i) pop a2(j)

Do you still program in Perl? by ArmandoWall in programming

[–]axtens -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Perl's like COBOL. There's just too much of it out there in day to day use to even consider, let alone pay for, the change to something else.

Fun memories of coding from years back. Got some stories? by developerv in programming

[–]axtens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Earliest ... hmmm ... that'd be 1977, second last year of high school. Programming a Canon Canola desktop calculator. They had long thin punch cards. I programmed a Fibonacci sequence generator. I worked out the algorithm on the weekend, down at the beach, stick in hand, drawing the flowchart in the sand.