your favorite programming language?
Posted by bilalamjad3, 02-20-2010, 02:04 AM tell me. your favorite language.
Posted by cieslakd, 02-20-2010, 02:45 AM First: Python for simplicity, second: Java for static type checking.
Posted by plumsauce, 02-20-2010, 03:18 AM assembler you said favourite, not most practical
Posted by SSD-Greg, 02-20-2010, 05:04 AM PHP and JavaScript
Posted by n3r0x, 02-20-2010, 07:21 AM C ASM (Assembly) PHP (for when im lazy "which is often")
Posted by DashV, 02-20-2010, 08:25 AM In order: Python PHP Ruby C
Posted by sentabi, 02-20-2010, 03:21 PM PHP Python
Posted by under_gravity, 02-20-2010, 03:28 PM c# , asp.net and c-language
Posted by TonyB, 02-20-2010, 04:55 PM I love doing c++ but typically never have anything that requires it. So usually it's more playing around doing stuff in opengl and using c++ than anything practical. For scripting or web stuff I prefer PHP over any of the other languages. I suppose I really don't much care what language it is as long as it's C based. All the same after that besides function names and language specific features.
Posted by RavC, 02-20-2010, 05:46 PM C Python Hate C++
Posted by oceanplexian, 02-20-2010, 08:04 PM I can't believe no one has mentioned Perl. Hard to explain, but it always seems that it doesn't do what I want, but always what I intended. There should always be more than one way to do things properly. I'm probably a bit biased as it was my first language...
Posted by fava, 02-20-2010, 10:59 PM Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister aka Swiss Army Chainsaw aka Perl
Posted by TonyB, 02-20-2010, 11:47 PM I absolutely hate Perl it's just awkward to program in for me. It could be most other languages I had worked in before Perl were all similar to C or C itself.
Posted by Host Ahead, 02-21-2010, 07:53 PM NET in every flavor Because of its versatility, useable on the web, windows, services, silverlight, web services, ... Mostly VB.NET though, started with it, sticked with it, altough I do some projects in C# too
Posted by Doh004, 02-22-2010, 09:42 AM I really enjoyed doing C# work this past Summer. That said, Python is just so elegant.
Posted by mattle, 02-22-2010, 01:47 PM Hawaiian, then Italian.
Posted by DashV, 02-22-2010, 01:50 PM Python in every way except for the Web where I prefer PHP.
Posted by Adrian Andreias, 02-22-2010, 02:01 PM Python (specially for web - with Django). Unless a PHP developer is using a REALLY smart framework (which Symphony isn't for instance and a lot of them aren't), if he does the Django tutorials and spends some time on Python and Django, he will never return to PHP . At least I didn't .
Posted by cygnusd, 02-22-2010, 02:13 PM Python for the web (Django): clean, batteries-included. Perl for networking, general-purpose server-side apps: very powerful, expressive. Java for client-side apps: complete, portable For my future study: Erlang and Haskell.
Posted by Slitheryimp, 02-22-2010, 03:17 PM Anything .Net, but I prefer C# though
Posted by cselzer, 02-22-2010, 04:51 PM C++ - applications (only write automation programs for games a.k.a bots) python - pretty much anything I can use it for, i love python. php - small stuff.. lua - I use lua in ALL of my game bots for scripting routines.. I reverse game functions and expose them to lua.
Posted by yais, 02-22-2010, 06:48 PM got to be php though i learnt with vb6.
Posted by joelietz, 02-22-2010, 07:52 PM Ruby. The syntax is fantastic. I'm quite interested to see what Google does with GO - it's a new C++ replacement.
Posted by linuxclark, 02-23-2010, 01:37 PM Python all the way
Posted by FastServ, 02-23-2010, 03:54 PM Perl, PHP, JavaScript, and C++. Between these, we can accomplish anything on any platform.
Posted by kpmedia, 02-23-2010, 04:00 PM classic ASP
Posted by Moviefrontier, 02-24-2010, 02:37 AM I like java,simple but powerful
Posted by RelativeDesign-Jerret, 02-24-2010, 04:20 AM c# in Visual Studio. Try as I might I can't replicate the experience with anything else.
Posted by Southprojects, 02-24-2010, 10:15 AM lol.
Posted by ramnet, 02-24-2010, 12:49 PM Same here I prefer regular C more than C++ tho I don't like objects very much (I try to stay away from Java-variants) - procedural programming ftw! Oh, and don't forget BASH shell programming
Posted by oliviakitty, 02-24-2010, 01:21 PM C++ and PHP...
Posted by domainandhost, 02-24-2010, 01:26 PM PHP and Ruby on Rails!
Posted by Southprojects, 02-24-2010, 01:53 PM you sound like an old-school guy, may be 30-40 year old. I am right?.
Posted by ramnet, 02-24-2010, 01:57 PM Let's just say I have an old soul Can you say LISP brackets are fun
Posted by n3r0x, 02-24-2010, 05:13 PM I'm with you C over C++.. but if I had the knowledge I would use ASM over C every day of the week..
Posted by bhavicp, 02-25-2010, 06:14 AM PHP for everrrr!! oh and Java second
Posted by Frager, 03-03-2010, 07:08 AM Is it true that Facebook is being programmed entirely from scratch? If you would have to develop a social networking platform similar to Facebook, but a little bit more complex than this stupid website, in which programming language would you build it (front-end, back-end)? I don't understand why not everyone favors Java over PHP. is it because there are less Java experts available on the job market than PHP developers? Why is the Front-End of Facebook in PHP and the Back-End in Java? Why not completely in Java?
Posted by Crothers, 03-03-2010, 07:41 AM I started in PHP... Then I grew up and learned good languages Python and Ruby right now are my personal favorites. Extremely powerful languages right there. With C/++ being close 3/4th however I never find use for what little I do know with those languages to be useful in large applications...
Posted by inspiron, 03-03-2010, 08:02 AM C, C++, PHP for its nice programing functionality.
Posted by xxdomainxx, 03-03-2010, 08:57 AM PHP C C++ Never tried Python,But will do so
Posted by sasha, 03-03-2010, 09:39 AM PHP obviously works so I would just go with it. Even more now when Facebook team addressed and provided solution for PHP scaling issues when you are dealing with billions of hits per day (HipHop). I am sure there would be some python there too (threaded background updates) and maybe even java (jabber chat server). There is that and then there is the fact that working with PHP is easy and fast and that java is big fat memory hog. I am not sure where you got that information. Facebook is written in PHP. Java is probably used for only one or two services (I'd guess their chat would be one of those).
Posted by forum_user, 03-04-2010, 08:23 AM PHP and C++
Posted by AndyGett, 03-04-2010, 09:33 AM C# in Visual Studio If batch files count as a language, then that is second. Very useful. Ten years ago, maybe even five years ago it would have been Delphi.
Posted by marcbarak, 03-04-2010, 09:43 AM We only code in pure PHP to run on MySQL to reside on a Linux server
Posted by gotlivechat, 03-04-2010, 10:56 PM no love for classic asp? :-) and javascript....
Posted by Morris Robin, 03-05-2010, 08:47 AM My favorite language is SAP-ABAP/4.
Posted by bilalamjad3, 03-05-2010, 08:48 AM tell me more about this language robin.
Posted by Evzin, 03-05-2010, 04:25 PM Erlang i guess...
Posted by RS Shamil, 03-05-2010, 05:21 PM Advanced Business Application Programming
Posted by ramnet, 03-05-2010, 07:19 PM Is that like COBOL for the 21st century
Posted by MammothVPS, 03-05-2010, 09:36 PM C# for work Python for fun
Posted by David-, 03-05-2010, 10:14 PM Mines has to be Visual Basic <3!
Posted by jweeb, 03-05-2010, 10:18 PM PHP is my first choice.