[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Oren Leavitt]

On 12/7/20 10:57 AM, Jean-Pierre Desrochers wrote:
>> C is still my favorite language.
> Same for me !
>
> JP

Likewise me, too! Second only to solder :)

- Oren

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] De la part de Michael E Caloroso
> Envoyé : 7 décembre 2020 11:29
> À : Roman Sowa
> Cc : synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> Objet : Re: [sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation
>
> I'm a BTEE graduate, one of my classes was structured programming.
> Language was Pascal.  We were given an assignment to build a program that converted resistor color codes to actual value.  To my instructor's disbelief I designed a converter using three lines of code.  I simply made a string array with the color codes in order, and used the array index as the digit value & multiplier.  Thus the color code could be parsed and value computed in a single line.  Even without any formal programming education I already understood the concept of indirect array indexing and compound statements.
>
> That intuition helped when I studied microprocessors and assembly language.
>
> I have to say that assembly programming did make it easier to learn C.
>
> C is still my favorite language.
>
> MC
>
> On 12/7/20, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>> W dniu 2020-12-05 o 22:11, Brian Willoughby pisze:
>>> You definitely won't be wasting your time by learning C.
>>>
>> That one sentence brought my attention.
>> It took me a whole semester in school to understand one line of
>> simplest code in C, but after that it was a path with no return. I
>> only had background in Assembler and Pascal before. As a result my
>> master's thesis was rather complex Windows program written in C++ with
>> small addition of hardware. And I was not educated to be a programmer at all.
>>
>> What I mean to say is that learning C is like riding a bike, it may be
>> a bit tough at first, after you learn it you don't have to use it each
>> day to jump on it one day and just go ahead.
>> Now C is my first choice when I need simple PC utilities, like file
>> format converters.
>>
>> Roman
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