Computer Languages you've used (and loved)

[jbjb]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Who are these "expert programmers"?

You’ll know them when you see them 😂.

Array accessing is NOT user pointer/address arithmetic

In C it most definitely is. A[B] is by definition just another way of spelling
*((A)+(B)), which is clearly pointer arithmetic.

Worry about improving performance after it's working.

For many applications performance is part of the definition of working, e.g. hard real-time control.

Unless you are coding 200 Ms /s DSP or a tiny micro controller managing 1MHz signals, performance is the last thing to worry about.

Precisely my point- sometimes you *are* writing high speed DSP code or using tiny embedded processors (or kernel code, or memory management code, or any of a gazillion other areas where pointer arithmetic is useful).

What’s normal in one field isn’t necessarily so in others.

[SteveEisenberg]

Loved is not the same as produced the fastest and most stable software. Allowing that:

Applesoft Basic (as a hobbyist)
VB4, VB5, and VB6 (as a paid* developer)
Transact-SQL

Languages that I have used a lot and did not love so much include COBOL and VB.NET (I worked in a shop that was heavily Basic oriented).

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* I could say professional, but I always felt I was a paid amateur (not meant as an self-insult, just a statement).