2026-04-29 06:18 UTC
@jackwilliambell @forthy42 @glyph wow. I don't come close to 20.
But I think I got a decent range from obscure assembler to python, with a bunch of hardware design languages thrown in.
At the moment, C++/C# earns me the money.
C++ is certainly ugly. It *tries* to be friendly, just as a tiger raised in captivity is just a cuddly cat. One wrong move... and ot lets you make all the wrong moves.
C on the other hand is a wild wolf showing its teeth: it doesn't pretend not to be dangerous.
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@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com 2026-04-29 06:24
@haihappen @forthy42 @glyph I did a *lot* of C++ back in the day. In the end? The thing about C++ is there is 15 ways to do any one thing in the language, but everyone only learns 4 to 7 of them. And no one learns the same 4 to 7. My favorite languages are C and Python. Someone once asked me about why I preferred C over C++ and I reached up to my shelf and pulled down both the K&R and Stroustrup's massive doorstop. I then silently looked at him with one eyebrow raised.