Favorite programming language?
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
C++. C# is interesting, but I don't like it very much. In fact, I would go as far as to say that C# isn't really a language--it's more like a scripted interface to all the API functions. But, I'm no expert on language design! Marc P.S. I hate namespaces.
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
Definitely C++ although oddly at night I sometimes dream about writing Z80 assembler again :wtf: Which is odd because I never dream about 6502 or 8080 or Acorn RISC. Obviously I'm confused & need help :confused: JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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Chris Losinger wrote: i'd love to learn some of the 'functional' languages, since they seem so very nice and clean. Check out http://www.haskell.org[^]. Haskell is a fun language, but almost unusable in reality if you've been tainted by imperative languages. I've tried, but I just can't think in that language. C and C++ fucked up my brain paths I guess.. :( Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
I love the concept of Haskell! Thanks for the info. Marc
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
C++ by a long way, followed by a gaggle consisting of Ada (fond memories...), 68k assembly language (hey, I'm a masochist geek with a yen for optimization measured by the processor cycle :-D, driven by the necessities of woefully underpowered realtime embedded systems!) and JScript...so long as it's hosted by Windows Scripting Host, so I've got regular expressions, the FileSystemObject and all the lovely things COM gives you ;P. Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
Ray is about to swim with the sharks here for speaking his mind in public... VB;P
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
1. C++ 2. C 3. Z80 Assembler 4. Fortran 77 ;P :beer:
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
Prolog, man! Okay, just kidding. C++ is my favorite. (scheme(has(too(many(parentheses))))) I do like Perl for the occasional odd task or for Web stuff. I hear good things about PHP and Python, but have never used either. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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Ray is about to swim with the sharks here for speaking his mind in public... VB;P
hehe. At least you are a VB programmer with balls! ;) Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
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Prolog, man! Okay, just kidding. C++ is my favorite. (scheme(has(too(many(parentheses))))) I do like Perl for the occasional odd task or for Web stuff. I hear good things about PHP and Python, but have never used either. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
(scheme(has(too(many(parentheses)))) ) Good editors can do expression highlighting for you :) Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
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hehe. At least you are a VB programmer with balls! ;) Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: At least you are a VB programmer with balls! Thanks! (I think :) ) I might be able to put down C# some day but I don't know it well enough yet to say that it is my favorite.
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
Scheme? Is it this paranthesis festival in mid-august? I must admit, it has something. However, when it's about gettign a job done, I rather command than argue. (i.e. if I prefer the "do this do that" model, rather than "X is Y and Z") C++, definitely. Home is where C++ is. C#: I especially admire that MS did (again) something for the "masses", not some ivory tower revolution. Pascal: If I'm at home at C++, Pascal is where I've grown up. Ah those memories....
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
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Prolog, man! Okay, just kidding. C++ is my favorite. (scheme(has(too(many(parentheses))))) I do like Perl for the occasional odd task or for Web stuff. I hear good things about PHP and Python, but have never used either. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
Prolog is cool. Ryan Johnston
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
C++ (Visual or otherwise) JAFL Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
I like C++ now. When I was a student, I use to like one called ICON. It was a great string processing language. I kinda like C# but then again, I never did learn java or anything like that. Nick
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
You guys are all sadistic. Okay, I admit that C++ is essential at times. And I understand the fact that C++ (and even moreso assembler languages) are like the programming equivalent of extreme sports (doing things the hard way just to prove that you can). But how can anyone claim that C++ is their favourite language? All that vile string handling and taking two days to write a simple dialog (remember... MFC is cheating, even if it isn't all that much easier). VB for GUIs, C++ / ATL for any real work. Borland did a reasonable job of combining the two with BCB. C# is looking like a good contender but I haven't REALLY pushed it yet, so I'm reserving judgement. Paul
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Prolog is cool. Ryan Johnston
I like the concept of a logic-based language. IT could get you in trouble though. The only time I've used Prolog was in a programming language course back in my college days. I can barely remember the syntax. You could write a very simple program that would sort a list of numbers, by asserting that a particular list was in order. The problem was, it would try every permutation of that list of numbers until it found one that satisifed that condition (was sorted.) So you ended up having an O(n!) sorting algorithm! We later learned other ways of doing it. :-O There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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I can't decide between Scheme and C++. Scheme is very clean and simple - elegant IMHO. C++ on the other hand is very complete and powerful. What's your favorite programming language? Preferred storyline: - I am your father. Search your feelings and you'll know it's the truth. Together we can rule this galaxy like father and son. - Ok dad. Let's kick some butt!
1. C++ 2. JavaScript 3. Java (and probably C#) C++ has tons of features -- it's hard outgrow it. Templates, default parameters, multiple inheritance, preprocessor macros, stack allocation of objects, operator overloading, direct access to native APIs, etc. JavaScript has the C syntax and adds it's own set of unique features. I like being able to add functions or properties to a class on the fly. Java also maintains the C syntax but keeps things type-safe and simple. A couple of features I love about it are inner classes and the ability to override a method without causing other overloaded methods to be hidden, like in C++. Also, when it comes to portability, Java is nice. Regards, Alvaro Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
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You guys are all sadistic. Okay, I admit that C++ is essential at times. And I understand the fact that C++ (and even moreso assembler languages) are like the programming equivalent of extreme sports (doing things the hard way just to prove that you can). But how can anyone claim that C++ is their favourite language? All that vile string handling and taking two days to write a simple dialog (remember... MFC is cheating, even if it isn't all that much easier). VB for GUIs, C++ / ATL for any real work. Borland did a reasonable job of combining the two with BCB. C# is looking like a good contender but I haven't REALLY pushed it yet, so I'm reserving judgement. Paul
pdriley wrote: All that vile string handling and taking two days to write a simple dialog Um gee, that's a cookie-cutter excuse if I ever heard one. Fact is, I rarely use MFC for my Win32 coding, and I can put together a dialog-based app in no time. Oh wait, it gets better, I actually save my code to reuse, so I can throw one together in a few minutes. That's because I know what I am doing instead of looking at it only to realize it involves too much thinking. Gee, something so simple as subclassing seems so cryptic to most VBers - not to mention VB crashes all too often when doing that. When it's all said and done, I still have more control over my program. Oh, and if you do end up using a lot of raw Win32 API in VB, not only is it a pain in the butt to deal with all the declarations, but it still becomes just as arduous (as you say) as C. Jeremy Falcon Imputek "C# is the answer to a question nobody asked." - Chris Losinger
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You guys are all sadistic. Okay, I admit that C++ is essential at times. And I understand the fact that C++ (and even moreso assembler languages) are like the programming equivalent of extreme sports (doing things the hard way just to prove that you can). But how can anyone claim that C++ is their favourite language? All that vile string handling and taking two days to write a simple dialog (remember... MFC is cheating, even if it isn't all that much easier). VB for GUIs, C++ / ATL for any real work. Borland did a reasonable job of combining the two with BCB. C# is looking like a good contender but I haven't REALLY pushed it yet, so I'm reserving judgement. Paul
pdriley wrote: You guys are all sadistic. I believe you meant to say that we are all masocistic (which indicates that we enjoy hurting ourselves, whereas sadistic indicates we enjoy hurting others). pdriley wrote: (doing things the hard way just to prove that you can). I actually see it more like doing it the right way, rather than the hard way. To me, C++ is much more elegant than VB. If you want a rapid development environment, I'd say to use C#. VB is so dirty. pdriley wrote: taking two days to write a simple dialog Try to make a complex one in VB and see how long it takes you. I guess VB is great for cookie cutter design, but C++ gives you a lot more control. Ryan Johnston
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I like the concept of a logic-based language. IT could get you in trouble though. The only time I've used Prolog was in a programming language course back in my college days. I can barely remember the syntax. You could write a very simple program that would sort a list of numbers, by asserting that a particular list was in order. The problem was, it would try every permutation of that list of numbers until it found one that satisifed that condition (was sorted.) So you ended up having an O(n!) sorting algorithm! We later learned other ways of doing it. :-O There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
Navin wrote: like the concept of a logic-based language I like the concept too, but I could never see using it for anything. Ryan Johnston