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Which programming language you like the most and why?

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  • L Lost User

    You forgot about Bacon. Lots and lots of Bacon. [Edit] Who in their right mind would 1 vote a Bacon post???? Good god for the love of bacon!?!?

    Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

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    Super Lloyd
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    now, what is it about bacon!?

    A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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    • N Nikunj_Bhatt

      Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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      Michael Haines
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      My favorite is the one that keeps me gainfully employed. I am currently working several projects at a time and working in C#, VB, Java, Groovy, Javascript, XUL, and a proprietary templating language for UIs. I finish lines of VB with semi-colons and forget the ()s on If statements in Java/Groovy/Javascript. If someone knows how to setup eclipse and VS to catch these mistakes, that would be a feature I'd like to have. You are here - through no fault of mine!

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      • R Rob Grainger

        I see both points of view, but

        SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand();

        Seems a bit redundant. I prefer "var" there (especially for generic types). Most other times I use the type - it helps keep code readable. Maybe you should be arguing for coding standards where you work that codify these things (always a shame you need to tell people). Better still, stop employing sloppy programmers.

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        RugbyLeague
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        I agree. But haters gonna hate :)

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        • R Rob Grainger

          Really, I've always thought SQL was a hardship we have to endure. To whit... 1. Dates. WTF?!!?? No real standard support for dates. 2. Joins. WTF is that fugly syntax. 3. Aggregattion and grouping. WTF. 4. Use of DISTINCT (it should be implicit in every query) There's plenty more, but it always struck me as a butt-ugly language, poorly designed for the task in hand. I mean honestly, a language for accessing relational databases that fails to be even relational: SQL Criticism[^]

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          To know her is to love her. I guess you don't know her like I do.

          Rob Grainger wrote:

          Joins. WTF is that fugly syntax.

          Perhaps you're using Oracle?

          Rob Grainger wrote:

          DISTINCT (it should be implicit in every query)

          Heck no. I very rarely use DISTINCT; I did the other day, first time in years, I was being lazy. About the worst thing I can say about SQL is that BETWEEN shouldn't be inclusive.

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          • N Nikunj_Bhatt

            Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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            jocstar
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            68K Assembler, Snasm and an Amiga!! An elegant weapon from a more civilized age.

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              Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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              VEMS
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              C++

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                Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                BubingaMan
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                Beyond a doubt, my favorite (GUI) language is XAML. MVVM in combination with MVC patterns results in the most elegant LOB applications I have ever seen. I absolutely love it. XAML + C# is by far my favorite combo. As for specific implementation of XAML based technology, I have a preference for WPF. Silverlight has some nice features as well, but overall SL has been a pain in the ass for me.

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                • N Nikunj_Bhatt

                  Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                  User 4085378
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                  I vote for VB for several reasons. I say this, having designed 2 fully operational procedural languages. Professor E. J. Yannakoudaks eyan@aueb.gr

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                  • N Nikunj_Bhatt

                    Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                    Old Ed
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                    Assembler, without a doubt. I like it because it's pristine. Every instruction does exactly what you expect it to do. As for features, it's the lack of features that make Assembler great to work with.

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                      Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                      danmcleran
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                      Python is my fun girlfriend. C++ is my dependable wife.

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                      • R Rob Grainger

                        I see both points of view, but

                        SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand();

                        Seems a bit redundant. I prefer "var" there (especially for generic types). Most other times I use the type - it helps keep code readable. Maybe you should be arguing for coding standards where you work that codify these things (always a shame you need to tell people). Better still, stop employing sloppy programmers.

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                        Alexander DiMauro
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                        Rob Grainger wrote:

                        Seems a bit redundant. I prefer "var" there (especially for generic types).

                        Exactly. I agree. Especially when you are handed code like this:

                        SomeClassWithACrazyLongNameThatGoesOnAndOnAnd bacon = new SomeClassWithACrazyLongNameThatGoesOnAndOnAnd();

                        The one that makes me laugh (while pulling my hair out) the most is when I see:

                        var bacon = 3;

                        Now THAT is not even laziness, just silly...except for the bacon.

                        The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! Have you tried turning it off and on again? Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

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                        • N Nikunj_Bhatt

                          Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                          BrainiacV
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                          FORTH is the one true language...at least for anything requiring real time controls. It allows you to freely intermix high level and low level code as you create a new language to match your task. Your commands can become active during compilation and can start reading your source code to perform functions not built into the compiler. It supported the rudiments of object orientation, long before the terms and methodologies were created. FORTH code is smaller than machine code and operates at 80% of compiled C code. Being stack based, unit testing is a snap. No need to create scaffolds for testing. Just load up the stack and execute it. Each command (verb) can be compiled in immediate mode and immediately tested. In team environments, after we define our points of contact, we generally just zipper our code together and it all works. I became a true believer after we slapped together in just six weeks a project I estimated to take nine months (and I'm good at estimating). We literally slung code at a wall and it all stuck. Later projects let me write code that wrote itself by expanding the compiler dynamically. It was fast too, I'd compile 300K programs in 30 seconds while C compilers at the time would take hours. It is interactive, you can add commands while the program is running (particularly after you have added multi-tasking to the language instead of the OS), so you are not stuck in the Edit-Compile-Run-Debug-Repeat cycle. That said, I still prefer to let the task select the language. If I am going to be parsing strings, my first choice is BASIC, and I don't mean that perversion called VB.NET. But today my language of choice is C#.NET because it is less verbose than VB.NET. Mostly because it is a commercial decision and there is no Object Oriented FORTH (of merit) until I guess I write it.

                          Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                          • N Nikunj_Bhatt

                            Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                            Masterdesign
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                            Hello, deciding which programming language is most likely one depends upon the ease of use less complicated still productive and the variety of udate feature If that is the case than i think C# is the only option. Thanks

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                              Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                              Sergio Andres Gutierrez Rojas
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                              C# for thousand reasons regards.

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                              • M mla154

                                C# is my favorite.  Here's why: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/mla154#_comments[^]

                                Regards, Mike

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                                Nikunj_Bhatt
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                                None of the features mentioned on the linked page are actually features of C#. Except Garbage Collection, all the features are of Visual Studeo .NET IDE. And Garbage Collection is not provided only in C# but this is available in almost all .NET languages (VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET, C#.NET and other more that 20 languages). Garbage is collected by .NET CLR and not by any of the language itself.

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                                  Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                                  rdt123
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                                  Foxpro 2.6. It had everything except for OLTP. It had runtime, a decent compiler, lots of good SQL and the ability to write an assembler progam to do the System type magic such as create files.

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                                  • N Nikunj_Bhatt

                                    None of the features mentioned on the linked page are actually features of C#. Except Garbage Collection, all the features are of Visual Studeo .NET IDE. And Garbage Collection is not provided only in C# but this is available in almost all .NET languages (VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET, C#.NET and other more that 20 languages). Garbage is collected by .NET CLR and not by any of the language itself.

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                                    mla154
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                                    Combined with Visual Studio 2010, C# is my favorite language. I'm aware that garbage collection is provided in other languages.  Garbage collection in C# makes programming enjoyable.

                                    Regards, Mike

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                                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                                      SQL. Because it's the best way to access and manipulate the data I need to access and mess with, and I can use it via a number of other (general-purpose) programming languages (C#, VB.net, C, etc.) as appropriate.

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                                      Nikunj_Bhatt
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                                      I have asked about programming language and SQL is not a programming language, it is a query language only for database. However Transact-SQL (T-SQL) of Microsoft, for its Ms SQL Server, is a programming language.

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                                        Which programming language you like the most and why? What feature(s) you love the most? Is there any other feature(s) that you wish to present in the language you are working on?

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                                        Nikunj_Bhatt
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                                        Seen a lot of variations here, wow. My choices are PHP, JavaScript, FoxPro because these are loosely typed languages. Coding in these languages is faster and mostly less code is required to perform most tasks than in other languages. They also have wide wide range of functions and support available.

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                                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                                          Anything using 0 based arrays


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                                          Nikunj_Bhatt
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                                          After this debate (favourite programming language) completes, I will ask another question and I can predict your answer to it. Here is the MD5 key of what you will say according to my prediction : 47ada99041b9bdfbf695925f08eb6ada It is generated using MySQL. I will give you the original text in a reply to your reply of the next question which I am going to ask. And then you should be able to compare that text's MD5 key with the above key. Till than may your soul rest in peace :rose: ;)

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