Which is your favorite programming language? And which is your least favorite?
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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.
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For me Favorites: C++ and C# Most hated: C X|B X|L Vikram.
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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.....