What is your favourite programming language?

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PHP

Leader! Most 1st Place Votes
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Java

Top Five Percent
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C

Say no more...

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FreeBASIC

FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible p... [show more]

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Python

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Ruby

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Perl

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Javascript

Used to be used for silly stupid effects. Now it powers some of the most widely used applications on the Internet.

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C#

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C+

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Visual Basic .NET

Specifically using .NET Framework 2.0

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Lisp

Such elegance...

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To accomplish what?

If I'm writting embedded, maybe assembly, maybe C. Mid-level apps, C++ or C#, and so on. You pick the tool according to the task.

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Bash

#!/bin/bash

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Does 1337 Count?

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Asm

Assembly programming.
Sometimes, you just have to talk to the machine directly.

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Whitespace

http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered s... [show more]

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Pascal

ok, so mostly because it was my first prog language. and it was really logical, if fussy.

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BASIC (Applesoft)

10 PRINT "Helllo World!"

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Any BASIC

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Haskell

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PL/SQL

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Prolog

Ahh, symbolic languages. How I love thee, let me count the ways... ways(_). ?- ways(X). yes.... [show more]

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What is a programming language

I have no idea I am not a programmer.

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Ada 95

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IBM RPG

This thing was on punched cards in the 1960s. Your grandad coded in this language. It goes back to Roman times. I have seen W... [show more]

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FORTRAN

Real Programmers use Fortran

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Delphi

Fast to run and pleasant to code in. A great OOP language back in 1999.

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Awk

Text-manipulating scripting language, originally by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. awk '{print "Who needs perl?";}' < /dev/n... [show more]

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tachyon 1 year ago

It's sad how quickly programmers and language publishers have jumped on the OOP bandwagon.
Yet people continue to wonder why code gets more and more bloated, slow, and buggy with each release. In theory OOP might be an OK idea, for large coding projects, produced by teams of programmers. But in reality, it just promotes lazy, buggy, slow, and otherwise crap programming.

See http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm

When I think about the kind of fast, solid elegant code produced back in the day and look at the crap we have now, I'm just sickened.
If you look at the speed, and efficiency of some of the applications produced back in the days of slow processors and limited memory compared to what is crapped out of software houses now, it's sad.
Look at what people did on the C=64's and Apple II's and IBM PC's back in the day. Today's OOP programmer couldn't manage much more than "hello world" on them before running out of resources.

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