27 Dec
2019
27 Dec
'19
5:46 p.m.
On 12/25/19 12:31, Tomasz Rola wrote (in part):
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Nemo Nusquam
wrote:
A former colleague wrote an assembler in AWK. We had a
contract to
supply s/w for a chip still being developed. The (binary -- no source)
assembler supplied by the customer was not only buggy and slow, it
core-dumped on reaching an unknown op-code and they changed op-codes on
every iteration!
[...]
A recent thread makes me wonder which languages
would people like to
learn? (I confess to trying, as Dave does, but time prevents
anything more that learing syntax and writing toy programmes. One
must write something substantial -- not synonomous with large -- to
really learn a language.)
Erlang, Smalltalk, Prolog, Haskell, and Scheme come to mind...
I will swim
upstream and say: if I had more free time, I would
probably want to finish reading "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho,
Kernighan snd Weinberger. But if you have not had experience with Scheme yet,
try it out. LISPs
in general are worth learning, IMHO. And much more practical than what
a popular opinion says.
Indeed -- I have played with Racket on and off (especially as it builds
on my Sparc box).
N.