Was anyone forced to learn an obscure programming language during college? If so what was it and have you used it since?

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octothorpe

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yellow-dog

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Plenty, and i loved them all. Im a sucker for obscure languages.
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octothorpe

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@irene have you used sny of those in your carreer?
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octothorpe

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Yeah to be honest i had to google delphi haha
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octothorpe

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@irene oh...that sounds gross. You know whats sad tho? I got really good at ada95, i really liked it for some reason lol.
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demortes

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Basic. Lol.
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yellow-dog

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@irene there are a bunch of delphi jobs where i live
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gorsamp

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Haskell. Never used it, but I love functional programming in C#.
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csman

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Jython, I still am wondering why, they chose that over python...
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beegC0de

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SPARC assembly, visual BASIC
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varundey

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Matlab in our first semester lol. Have never even used it since
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demortes

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VHDL count? Don't use it.
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epse

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Eiffel. I don't even know what I can use it for
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FunkDelegate

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COBOL. Fucking take a look at that. It makes PASCAL look like a modern language. And it's still used for legacy reasons. I still see job offers demanding COBOL.
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Arro

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French, in highschool. I've never needed to use it since. Honestly, it was archaic!
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ZoLe

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Octave for editing images, basically loading the image as matrix and manipulating each pixel.
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FunkDelegate

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@Arro it's like English but better engineered 8) Sexier as well. Emperor Charles V said "I speak Spanish to God, French to my friends, Italian to my wife and German to my horse" 😁
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FunkDelegate

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@ZoLe I used a program like that when I had a PC with a 40 MB HD. No, this isn't a typo. RAM was about 1 MB I think.
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ZoLe

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@FunkDelegate I belive you, but i wasnt even born yet in that time, and Im doing this now, in this semester^^
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FunkDelegate

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@ZoLe Being born later didn't help apearently 8)
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csman

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@irene I have no idea... I try to forget. From memory it is an implementation of python to run in java. Suppose it is a python java compiler...?
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bittersweet

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@irene @octothorpe @sharktits

This might shock you: Delphi is the 9th most popular language, right under PHP and Javascript, and above Ruby, R and Swift.
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bittersweet

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@irene Yeah, popular doesn't necessarily mean good.
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bittersweet

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@irene or why both VB and VB.net are in the top 12.
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bittersweet

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@irene It's what I call "quick inheritance languages", because there's a lot of Delphi/VB/Fortran/etc positions where you can make a lot of money — in the few months leading up to your suicide.
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octothorpe

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@demortes i had to learn that too! Completely forgot
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hanieh-m

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Visual basic and QBasic. Does assembly count? MIPS and Intel8086. Nope I don't use any of them.
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octothorpe

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@hanieh-m i am surprised ppl dont use assembly. Its almost a requirement in the security world x86, and x64 at least
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hanieh-m

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@octothorpe Probably yes, but I don't need to use it anymore. Although I do understand why it is taught in college. It actually made me understand computers and programming a lot more and in a whole new level.