Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:23 am
Pancake wrote:But I haven't actually touched C/C++ in 10 years or so. Mostly Java now. sscanf() seems like cruel and unusual punishment when learning to program!
All C here, as I work in BIOS land (UEFI and coreboot mainly). So I'm using C all the time (my previous job was using C++, though nothing BIOS related). My use of assembly has gone down a lot (modern BIOSs, like OSs use only just enough assembly as necessary these days).
My under grad (mid 2000s) was actually VB6, C and Ada funnily enough, though I've forgotten the other two. I cut my teeth on Delphi for Win32 (and also tinkered with Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS). I Still like the Borland dialect of Pascal.
I have wanted to tinker around with old 8-bit'ters though.
Personally I think the cruel and unusual punishment is having to jump trough hoops with Java/.NET run-times and how sluggish those programs feel though, but I am a native code purest to be honest (I try to avoid anything written in Java/.NET where I can).
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