Javascript. It is FREE. Low bar of entry. No need for any fancy software or complicated setup, any browser can run it. Covers and has a surprising number of features and concepts that other languages use. Things like CodePen and JSFiddle are great for playing, learning, and getting feedback. Tons of libraries, most also free. You can use javascript in a lot of situations and jobs it is a very practical swiss army knife. You can program server side, client side, mobile apps, etc all with Javascript.
I know a lot of languages but if I were starting all over again today that is where iād start.
Are you familiar with mobile apps (primarily for Android) in javascript? If possible without the monstrosity of the Android SDK? Would you have any pointers, please? If possible with access to sensors and bluetooth serial ports?
I personally use Cordova/Phonegap which allows you to create mobile apps using Javascript/CSS/HTML (and optionally SVG if desired) and compiles them into native apps for all the various mobile platforms. That framework abstracts almost all the native hardware sdk calls, so it makes writing an app that runs on iPhone, Android, and Mobile Windows very easy with a single code base. You can make calls to the sensors, the camera, and most everything youād expect from the native SDKs. There are lots of plugins, you can use any third party javascript libraries you want. You can even include bits of native code if you need to.
Cordova is maintained by Apache and PhoneGap by Adobe, so big names, and they are essentially the same platform but Adobe provides an online compiler and app signing service. The compiled apps can be uploaded to the iTunes and Google Play and Windows stores.
APL? Seriously? If you donāt use INTERCAL you might as well be rubbing two sticks together. INTERCALās abandonment of BASICās GOTO in favor of the more easily used COME FROM makes it worth learning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Thatās true of almost any programming language thatās used outside of a narrow, specialized niche. Of the ten languages in that graphic from the article, nine of them are available for free and could be installed easily on any Windows, OS X, or Linux system; only Matlab is proprietary. Simple programs can be run in a terminal window in all three operating systems
Iām sure Javascript has plenty of virtues; I just donāt see why thatās the one you led with.
(Nominally, I can run Javascript on my mobile phone, but, setting aside the Web browser, that requires installing a kludgy bit of software that hasnāt been updated in about five years, last I checked. In practice, it would be difficult to run anything but Java.)
Until someone invents a language with the function āAAAAHHH! You electronic bastard! Why wonāt you do the thing?!ā that then does [thing], Iāma leave trying to code in my pastā¦
Most JVM languages interoperate with Java libraries pretty well, so if you hated Java for example, it is possible to write code in another JVM language like Clojure. This doesnāt get you out of learning the android sdk though. http://clojure-android.info/
@Mindysan33 seems to deploy it when something awful has been posted, and she doesnāt think the troll warrants the effort of a response (yet doesnāt want to flag the post and get it binned).
I used it here more like the popcorn-gifs ā Iām sitting back and watching the flamewars.
Iām glad that the āVB6 is teh best langwedge ever and .NET IS EVILā guys have mostly receded to muttering about their staplers in their basement offices (while still maintaining the desktop-apps that the c-level offices launch once or twice a year).
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PLEASE GIVE UP
Hello World in APL:
āHello World!ā
Quicksort in APL (Iām not even going to bother with INTERCALās Quicksort):
Malbolge and INTERCAL are great for driving the programmer nuts, but only APL combines very real power and elegance with absolute insanity. Note that Quicksort is only a bit longer than Hello World. Note also that you could easily add other transformations to the sorted array before the assignment. 5 lines can call up the Great Old One of your choice; 6 lines can bring all the Outer Gods crowding in.
However, APL does require a special keyboard, so, if you would like to bring chaos to the universe, but youāre worried about tentacles sprouting from the runes on the key caps (and, really, who wouldnāt be?), thereās J.
VB6 was great though, I used to love hacking it to do crazy shit it wasnāt designed for, like multi-threading, and writing W32 control api wrappers. It also had the best debugger ever, .NET has nearly caught up with it, but itās still nowhere near as good.
Well, thatās just it - if you work in a language like Malbolge, INTERCAL or Java2k, youāre likely to go irretrievably insane before finishing the incantation programme. (Either that or die of old age.) With APL, you can right get into the Twilight Zone and finish the incanta programme in jig time before insanity sets in, thus sharing its Apocalyptic madness, death and destruction benefits with the entire world.
Now granted, all these languages create incanta programmes that are difficult to reverse engineer, but with Malbolge, INTERCAL and Java2k, itās because the would-be hacker will die of old age before succeeding. With APL, the would-be hacker will probably be found the next day with brains oozing out his ears and smoke billowing from empty eye sockets, and how cool is that?
Thanks!
