There was a time when I used to code graphics drivers. I used to love #assemblylanguage. Nowadays, I can't code my way out of a paper bag. Its been so many years and I'm just a #yaml jockey these days. I've been trying to learn #python, and while I get the basics, it just doesn't seem to gel in my head to make an app. I want to like Go, but I feel I gotta get something down like python to get to that (and to do some projects I want to do). The goal is to learn #vala, but man, I'm dying here!
RIP Niklaus #Wirth. Wirth's #Pascal was among the first programming languages I actually enjoyed, after love-hate with #Fortran, #AssemblyLanguage and #PL1. I did loads of programming in Pascal in the 1970s and 1980s, on #DEC10s, #Vaxen and on the first IBM PCs (#TurboPascal). Then, #Modula. If you are using a #Logitech device today (I am!), that's another outcome of Wirth's vast ouvre!
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. This ranking is organized according to their popularity as of Sep 2023:
(1) Python
(2) C
(3) C++
(4) Java
(5) C#
(6) JavaScript
(7) Visual Basic
(8) PHP
(9) Assembly Language
(10) SQL
(11) Fortran
(12) Go
(13) MATLAB
(14) Scratch
(15) Delphi/Object Pascal
(16) Swift
(17) Rust
(18) R
(19) Ruby
(20) Kotlin
CPUlator: A web-based CPU simulator where you can watch memory and registers change as you run the program through the debugger. In the spirit of SPIM, for those of you who used that.
@ted_dunning@Houl That was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to know. I'm an #assemblylanguage geek. Thanks! I've cough spent more time looking at #motorola#M6809 documents today than I should have. Damned ADHD. :-P
Do you think the arch will live on in some way? Even #Fujitsu bailed on it.