worst language ever...

worst language ever...

Daniel Schlyder

Member #257

April 2000

asammahmood,

Good old days indeed. Allegro reminds me of Blitz Basic too. Very easy to do stuff. One of these days I'm gonna try to port my old Amiga games (if I don't get a heart attack looking at the source ;-).

I started using WIP 3.9.30, so I don't know much about 3.12, but the WIP works great for me using both DJGPP and MingW32. About using both 3.12 and the WIP, 3.12 was only for DOS, right? So why don't you just keep that, and install mingw separately with the WIP and then make a couple of batch files for setting up the compilers, instead of doing it in autoexec.bat. Then you can switch easily.

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natbudin

Member #436

June 2000

Anyone ever try PILOT? Now THAT is a horrible language.

Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

quote:Matthew, are there any C# white papers publicly available?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/dotnet/csspec/vclrfcsharpspec_Start.htm
They are starting to post info on their online MSDN, but a lot of it's incomplete. You'll notice the syntax looks a lot like Java, although there are some nice features. For example, you can do something like:
foo.bar = 3;
And "bar" is actually a "function". So instead of the classical:
foo.setBar(foo.getBar() + 1);
You can do a:
foo.bar++;
There are of course other improvements...
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CaptainToke

Member #821

December 2000

Well, I would have to say the worst language (for me) was java. Too limited, can't do much anything in it, and people just use it for crappy text/graphics effects, which you could do with animated GIF files, which are a little easier on the ol' CPU. Most good programmers can go beyond a language's limitations, but I'm not one of them
C/C++ Forever!
VB is pretty cool
Pascal is ok
ASM is just kooky
BASIC is fun to mess with
Perl is awesome
Haven't tried any others.
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chag

Member #801

November 2000

i loved quickbasic. it made it so easy to develop just about any program or tool i could think of quicker than any other language. if you needed speed, you just popped out a make shift ASM or C/C++ routine. in fact i would still be using it if i could find a quality (free) 32bit compiler...

MacGee

Member #827

December 2000

The worst language ever is... WELSH!

BWPOW

Member #613

September 2000

I think the worst language is FoxPro, if it can be called language. It is one of the most stupid programs I've ever seen.
And the worst real programming language?
I think it's Pascal - it all seems to me, as it wasn't finished - so many bugs

X-G

Member #856

December 2000

I must say that, without a doubt, Intercal is the worst programming language ever invented.
Example:
This is a simple "Hello World" program, written for Intercal:
PLEASE DO ,1 <- #13
DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #584
DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #837
DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #1100
DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #1356
DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #1615
DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #1824
DO ,1 SUB #7 <- #2135
DO ,1 SUB #8 <- #2383
DO ,1 SUB #9 <- #2642
DO ,1 SUB #10 <- #2892
DO ,1 SUB #11 <- #3140
DO ,1 SUB #12 <- #3361
DO ,1 SUB #13 <- #266
PLEASE DO ,2 <- #1
PLEASE DO .5 <- #0
PLEASE DO .4 <- #1
PLEASE COME FROM (1)
DO .6 <- ",1 SUB .4"~#255
DO .6 <- !6~#15'$!6~#240'
DO .6 <- !6~#15'$!6~#240'
DO .6 <- !6~#15'$!6~#240'
DO .1 <- .5
DO .2 <- .6
PLEASE DO (1010) NEXT
DO .3 <- .3~#255
DO .5 <- .6
DO ,2 SUB #1 <- .3
PLEASE READ OUT ,2
(1) PLEASE DO .4 <- ",1 SUB .4"~#3840
PLEASE GIVE UP
Also, look at this ROT-13 decoder some guy wrote for Intercal:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlm/rot13.i
Described at alt.folklore.computers as "4 pages of completely indecipherable code"

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James Howard

Member #262

April 2000

arghh! the worst language has to be BBC basic.. it sux so much and you have to type in line numbers and its annoying cos you have to type list to show the program...

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Bruce Perry

Member #270

April 2000

You obviously lost your old habits - BBC BASIC required all keywords to be in capitals!

I think BBC BASIC really brings back memories :-) And, it has a built-in assembler, which is more than can be said for QuickBASIC. And... COLOUR is spelt properly!

You do know about the AUTO keyword, don't you? Also, there was a ROM for editing BBC BASIC programs, which worked a bit like the QuickBASIC editor.

The BBC Computer had loads of advantages over the PC. Sure it didn't have as much memory... but sound was much better, it was much easier to access a 100 Hz timer (18.2 really isn't enough for games)... it started up really quickly :-)... and all the technical documentation came with the computer!

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