Choice of Programming Language - Page 5

tr3nton · 24th August 2012, 11:22 AM

VB is best. CSI: Miami uses it.

phreeky82 · 24th August 2012, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zach

VB promotes bad programmers tbh.

The easier a language is to dev with, the more often you'll see people say this about it.

Quite simply it's because, being easier to develop simple applications with, it's more likely to be used by those that are not capable of using other tools - those that many of us feel should not be coding to begin with I suppose.

But for people that were skilled and switched on, VB6 was a very powerful rapid development tool that either saved money, increased output, or both.

In many ways the same can be said for PHP, the web app version of VB if you get my drift. But rather than vanishing like VB6 it is and will continue to evolve, the merits and direction of which is a whole topic in itself.

vindicator · 24th August 2012, 1:15 PM

https://github.com/languages

elvis · 24th August 2012, 1:46 PM

My personal philosophy is:

1) Can I do it in BASH?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Try Python

2) Can I do it in Python?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Not worth doing

phreeky82 · 24th August 2012, 2:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

My personal philosophy is:

1) Can I do it in BASH?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Try Python

2) Can I do it in Python?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Not worth doing

My recent coding has been in C on atmega chips. Now where is that Python compiler...

(Somewhat OT: amazingly I saw that somebody got FreeRTOS running on an Atmega2560!)

However the software that I interface with on the PC I write in PHP, whether it's command-line or otherwise. C and PHP are polar opposites but the low level stuff is challenging enough and I coded in PHP full-time for years, the familiarity means it's not a challenge to whip something up in PHP even if I haven't used it in months.

gcflora · 24th August 2012, 2:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

My personal philosophy is:

1) Can I do it in BASH?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Try Python

2) Can I do it in Python?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Not worth doing

I think that should be quoted somewhere

IzzehO · 24th August 2012, 2:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

My personal philosophy is:

1) Can I do it in BASH?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Try Python

2) Can I do it in Python?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Not worth doing

This is me with C instead of Python. With Matlab thrown in there somewhere if I want to display something pretty.

Quote:

Originally Posted by phreeky82

My recent coding has been in C on atmega chips. Now where is that Python compiler...

PyMite is a python interpreter for 8 bit mcu's :P

phreeky82 · 24th August 2012, 2:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IzzehO

This is me with C instead of Python. With Matlab thrown in there somewhere if I want to display something pretty.

PyMite is a python interpreter for 8 bit mcu's :P

Sweet jesus make it stop! Python on a MCU and Matlab mentioned all in one post!

Foliage · 24th August 2012, 2:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

My personal philosophy is:

1) Can I do it in BASH?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Try Python

2) Can I do it in Python?
Yes -> Do it
No -> Not worth doing

True story.

elvis · 24th August 2012, 6:18 PM

Python fans, you need to try iPython:
http://ipython.org/

Any of you MATLAB or other mathematically inclined folks use R?

IzzehO · 24th August 2012, 6:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

Python fans, you need to try iPython:
http://ipython.org/

Any of you MATLAB or other mathematically inclined folks use R?

Honestly I'll use octave if matlab isn't available for a quick mathematical graph or plot. Anything beyond that and I'd just use C. My brain has only so much room for so many languages at the same time... swapping between them on a daily basis is just too exhausting. I've tried R and I've tried python (for mathematics), but it was a middleground I didn't really want or need.

Jarwedy · 24th August 2012, 7:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soarer GT

PHP

Why? Versatility.
.....

+1. I love it.

For Windows Apps, I use JAVA but I'd like to delve into C++/C# .NET just because I somehow think its more versatile than JAVA.

At work all our in house apps have been made in VB6 heh.

htpcfan · 27th August 2012, 9:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jarwedy

At work all our in house apps have been made in VB6 heh.

hehe you could use basic4android and easily 'port' them as Android apps

it's a VB 'like' to JAVA compiler that produces royalty free APKs.

there's a demo and I've got a 50% discount (brings it down to $49 USD with 2 years upgrades and support) if you want to PM me.

cyclobs · 28th August 2012, 8:45 AM

LOLCODE or no code

View Poll Results: Your Programming Language of Choice
ASm	2	0.92%
Ada	0	0%
BASIC	1	0.46%
BCPL	0	0%
C	19	8.76%
C#	52	23.96%
C++	25	11.52%
C++ (subset of)	2	0.92%
COBOL	2	0.92%
Erlang	0	0%
Forth	0	0%
Fortran	4	1.84%
Java	18	8.29%
JavaScript	9	4.15%
Lisp	0	0%
Logo	0	0%
Modula-2	0	0%
Objective C	1	0.46%
PHP	38	17.51%
Pascal	1	0.46%
Perl	12	5.53%
Python	20	9.22%
Ruby	6	2.76%
SQL	3	1.38%
Shell (Bash, ksh, csh, etc)	0	0%
TCL	0	0%
Other.... (please comment)	2	0.92%
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