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To: combjelly who wrote (462682)	3/10/2009 4:01:24 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

CJ, > So, if you are going to write code, you have to be nimble. C, C++, Verilog, Specman, and now SystemVerilog here. Funny how I'm great at computer languages, but terrible at spoken languages ... Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (462682)	3/10/2009 4:03:28 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574786

I still love C. It's just such a compact, elegant language, made for the programmer who knows how to use it. That said, I think we're still in the stone ages of computing and especially programming.

To: combjelly who wrote (462682)	3/10/2009 4:24:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

Things have thankfully stagnated, Java, Ruby, python, etc. are C++ knockoffs, often with some Perl regex stuff rolled in. So, if you are going to write code, you have to be nimble. Yes, and I don't quite see the point in it. I haven't really seen any improvement in tools since Borland released C++ Builder 12 or so years ago. Their IDE is still better than anything on the market, by a wide margin if you ask me. Does the world really need c#? I don't think so. And frankly, I think Java was a step backward from C++. But that's just me. As to regex, there are perfectly good regex functions in c that will do everything you need to do. I talked w/ a guy the other day who was coding in Ruby and just wondered why the hell anyone would do it.