Favorite Language

[nikkelitous]

I thought I would get programming jump started. If your answer is simple just use the poll if it isn't then post your breakdown in this thread.

[rudeboy]

Actually I used Pascal quite a bit in college, it was my first language love. I got weaned off of it when I did more and more projects in C. Unfortunately I graduated just before Java started to become popular. I wish I had seen Pascal on the poll God I'm such a goofball. My official vote goes to Perl.

[tima]

I like C for small and dirty projects, but i must say C++ really takes the crown, with nice data abstraction techniques, good OOP support and well, complete C compatibility...

For text based data manipulation, or writing a quick script, perl might be a good way to go, or maybe even perl + sql, it's always nice to have the database tools ready for you.

For quick GUI project, Visual Basic* is a good starting point, which can be used to write the interface and throw your C/C++ program into it.

I dislike java, but i can see the advanages and ease of using Java - mostly in hardware.

Assembly is pretty much obsolete for the real projects, as the current generation of the CPUs is a huge deeply pipelined, register renaming mess, and compilers are doing a great job optimising for that. It's mostly usefull now in the programming of small on-board controllers and such.

Languages like Lisp and Prolog are good for writing AI
code, as they offer the flexibility to redefine the program during the execution of it.

I haven't used anything else**, so i can't give the first hand expierence, but most of the languages are going to be more efficient for some specific task, so the question becomes more like: "What tasks do you do the most".


* Might not be avaliable on all operating systems. Use gtk or qt instead.

** I might have used something else, but it's not worth mentioning in here due to the fact that it is not considered as a language by the most people (shell scripts, VHDL, HTML), or because i simply forgot.

I've always been a Pascal kinda guy. Dunno why, it's not really that great, but it makes sense to me. Delphi/Kylix is my latest fuckaround toy, because it's good old Pascal with better "OO" than Ada. I think it still has a few flaws, but being able to do quick gui's for x is nice, and it handles console as well. And on win32, it just plain old smokes VB. ADO is a snap with D/K.

Oh, and a quote that's probably amusing only to me, taken from my c++ instructor; "The only good thing about c# is that it might get rid of VB."

Merry fucking christmas.

[Guardian]

I prefer the language of love....

Vietnamese....

Or, if programming, Turtle Logo...

:Guardian

[[iQ]]

am I the only one who digs delphi (yes, i'm probably one of very few who even touch winbloze.. hahha)

well i'll have to *learn* C/Unix next semester.. not that I've never touched *nix... just never found one I really liked...


Object Pascal is very nice, for what I use it for <g>

[idbeholda]

I usually prefer using VB for win GUI's, and then either using c/c++ or assembler for an engine, and have the GUI interpret the data that's processed.

[kweejee]

Coolgen looks nice, but I wouldn't want to use it.

I would have to say C++ or C#

[mhatter]

If I had to choose just one language, my vote is for C/C++.

It's high level enough you can quickly throw stuff together, at the same time you have complete control - Inline machine language...

Lately though, I've been writing a lot of tools for Windows. C# along with the .NET framework and Windows forms stuff is the quickest way I've found to get through the UI hell. It's also nice that you can import C/C++ DLLs.

Hardcore performance: C/C++ w/assembly.
Tools and your basic data manip apps: C#


On a side note, assembly is still used widely. A ton of embedded environments still require the use of assembly.

[catalyst]

No PHP or Python?

[Teep]

if we had any PHP gurus in here, there wouldn't have been backslashes before the single-quotes in the poll.... :P