Questions tagged [modern-languages]

One of the arguments I've heard against functional languages is that single assignment coding is too hard, or at least significantly harder than "normal" programming. But looking through my code, I realized that I really don't have many (any?) use…

I've been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is: Simple to learn (no object-oriented or functional-programming complications) Easy to read Blazing…

Writing fast native applications, with API calls and etc, in a modern cross platform programming language like C# would be awesome, wouldn't it? For example if you want to write a simple utility for helping IT people with installing things, which…