[Cialug] Question?

[Christopher Freeman]

Claus wrote:

> I'm not sure how many programming languages are out there but there 
> are quite a few obscure ones that are used for production in certain 
> areas or shops.  Pascal was never much being advertised as a 
> production language but instead has always been seen as a teaching 
> language by the general IT population.  So the hype was never that big 
> about it except for a time at educational institutions.  Besides my 
> personal opinion is that programming languages are over hyped and that 
> often decisions for one language over the other are made for the wrong 
> reasons.
>
> I did run into a guy once that swore that Pascal was the greatest 
> language and that he was in a shop that used it for production stuff. 
> Unfortunately our encounter was only brief and I wasn't able to sit 
> down and talk to him extensively about it.
>
>   Claus
> _______________________________________________

My ex-cousin-once-removed-in-law used to program in Forth as a 
free-lance programmer. That's pretty esoteric. He swore by it. I'll 
never know why.

My old boss wanted to port all of our stuff to Pascal after seeing a 
Kylix demonstration. I never could figure out if he was serious. I hope 
not. Fortunately, he's not making the decisions around here anymore.

I'd be interested to see if Lisp or Scheme are being used as production 
languages anywhere. I know of at least one AI company around, but I 
don't know what they use as their language(s) of choice.

What kind of programming (esp. Linux/Unix programming) do people on the 
list do, and with what languages? I do Unix commandline application 
development in C, C++ (very small amounts) and Perl primarily.

Chris