Which is your favorite programming language? And which is your least favorite?
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Favourites: C#, Turbo Pascal (just for the fond memories) Dislike intensely: Progress (first job used that, 500 reports to fix, you do the math) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: "Cynicism has it's place in life - but it should be kept well away from your inner self." Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Dislike intensely: Progress (first job used that, 500 reports to fix, you do the math) Progress isn't too bad. Ummm.... errrr.... OK it sucks! But every now and then when you have a painfully simple report or utility to do and you can write it from memory using a total of nine words it can be satisfying. All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
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Of the languages I've actually used, C++ is my favorite, and PIC assembly language is my least favorite. Languages I dislike on general principles: Visual Basic*, Forth, APL, and COBOL. * Note: I like ordinary BASIC. Visual Basic reminds me of a mouse built to government specifications (visualize in your mind a hermaphroditic seven-legged two-headed rhinocerous with skin problems, and you get the idea). Weird languages I've used and liked at the time: LISP, VAX/VMS DCL, PDP-11 assembly language.
Software Zen:
delete this;You didn't like Forth??? I always thought it was kind of a fun little language. You couldn't do much with it and MAN was it cryptic, but it was KIND of cool :) ...SteveH
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
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favs: C++, HTML, XML least: VB, and Pascal X| :suss: Later, JoeSox “Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean (ISTP) www.joeswammi.com ↔ www.humanaiproject.org
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Favorites: Java, C#, Perl (Still learning, but I like it) Hated: Javascript, Visual Basic (original, not .NET) Most hated (And I mean DETESTED): IDL (Interactive Data Language) I had to do programming in this for a summer program last year (the Summer Science Program, if anyone cares), and we all despised it. The only opinion I've heard of it from actual programmers is "the bastard child of C and VB" - worst of both worlds. Matrix operations? Sure, they're there, it's a data-oriented language - but there are inconsistencies in how each operation handles both input and output (in terms of row-by-column or column-by-row)!!!
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Fav: C++, java, Prolog Hated: C++, prolog and fortran. C++ and I have sort of a love-hate relationship going on. But I just hate fortran. Its yuck.
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You didn't like Forth??? I always thought it was kind of a fun little language. You couldn't do much with it and MAN was it cryptic, but it was KIND of cool :) ...SteveH
The reason I disliked Forth is that the Computer Science dept. at my school switched the computer graphics lab to Forth. Unfortunately, the graphics textbook used at the time (early '80s) presented the algorithms in a procedural form. Given this change, student programs looked nothing like the algorithms they were learning how to implement. I was a lab advisor during this period. It was a stupid decision on the department's part. The point of the computer graphics classes should have been to learn how to do computer graphics, not how to translate procedural algorithms into this stack-based abortion of a language.
Software Zen:
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Favorites: Perl, C++, C# (I actually like this as an interpreted language :) ) Dislikes: FORTRAN (College class, and I hated every minute of it), Java (easy to program, but to dang slow!!) Cheers, Miahrugger
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
Ok, my votes go like this: Likes: C++,C#.... I think I might like C# better. Don't know why, maybe cause it's new. Also, when I was in school (mid 80s), we had a class called "Theory of Programming Languages" and the one language that was a lot of fun was ICON. It's essentially a string processing lang. I wonder if it is still viable..... And also, I hate to admit it, but I kinda liked Pascal. It built up a lot of structure that I think today's programmers are missing. Dislikes: AutoLisp (Autocad's version of Lisp). Only because I've been doing it too long to say that. I'm waiting for a CLR inside of Autodesk products. VB, yep, good old vb. I've seen to many limitations to VB where things should have been done in something like vc++. But then again, if VB never had the capabilities of "Hacks" then this would be a mood point... Just my 2 bits.. BTW, does anybody besides me remember WatFive? A fortran variant? I remember sitting in the computer lab and submitting my job and waiting for the responses to come back..... (I was JUST after the punch card days of WatFive). My how the times have changed haven't they? Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....