What programming language do you most prefer? - Page 5

jboles · 27th January 2005, 3:44 AM

Languages I use regularly, would include Java, PHP, Rapid-Q, HTML and SQL. Favourite is probably Java

predder · 27th January 2005, 4:53 AM

a combination of php and mysql would have to be my absolute favourite out of java, c, pascal, cpp and a few others I know (never dabbled in .net/asp/python though)

chancey · 28th January 2005, 10:59 AM

I dont like perl that much becuase it is interpreted (so its slower that C++).

About 57 times slower, I worked out

C++ is definitly my favorite

string · 28th January 2005, 2:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chancey

I dont like perl that much becuase it is interpreted (so its slower that C++).

About 57 times slower, I worked out
C++ is definitly my favorite

It's amazing how you can describe the "speed" of two languages using a single factor.

There are so many things that perl is useful for over C++, it's obvious that you havn't discovered those things yet.

Having said that, i'm a C/C++ man

chancey · 28th January 2005, 4:32 PM

Perl is still my favorite interpreted language, but I use C++ much more

squarenothing · 15th June 2005, 11:05 AM

Im Starting to Learn VB.NET & ASP.NET.... any ideas where to start.

Leigh

Snagage · 15th June 2005, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squarenothing

Im Starting to Learn VB.NET & ASP.NET.... any ideas where to start.

Leigh

www.4guysfromrolla.com is your friend.

Has a tutorial for most topics of interest in ASP.NET. And most of the examples are in VB.NET.

Webmaster_Zeus · 15th June 2005, 1:20 PM

Delphi and Java.

Draemad · 15th June 2005, 3:54 PM

Java, PHP, HTML, SQL, Shell script and VBscript. Although it says nothing in my job description about programming, i seam to do a lot of it.

stmok · 15th June 2005, 4:32 PM

C/C++ are my fav.

lovepig · 15th June 2005, 4:51 PM

Who in their right mind would code a whole app in .asm anymore? It's only useful for inline optimisation nowdays... (and 64k demo's

)

The madness!!! The maaaaddddneeesssssss!!!!!!.......

PHP is superior for web development, C++ for everything else. Turbo Pascal v7.0/Turbo Assembler still holds a special place in my heart though.

systemdown · 15th June 2005, 5:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chancey

Perl is still my favorite interpreted language, but I use C++ much more

My sentiments exactly. I use C++ for "real" tasks, but Perl is definitely my choice of scripting language.. I've been doing a lot of Perl lately, and now whenever I do C++ I find myself itching to use Perl-style regular expressions. Using boost::regex just isn't the same.

Punch Bunny · 15th June 2005, 5:18 PM

I use VB.NET daily for my job (along with HTML and JavaScript). It's not my ideal, but it pays the bills. The most amount of fun I've had programming involved using C.

supamodel · 15th June 2005, 5:36 PM

Definate right tool for the job for me.
Of course it also depends how one defines "prefer"
For my thesis I wrote some pretty heavy-duty numerical stuff in Fortran (for a number of reasons). f90 mixed with f77 and some other random stuff (including real oldschool fortran libraries).

For my current job it's PHP with some XML manipulation (heavy-duty web application stuff). Not bad, I do like PHP for this sort of thing (definately prefer it to perl, since I'm going along and fixing up a project with no docco at all).

For the job I'm moving to on 1 July I'm back into Fortran with some C. Back to my roots, given it's similar to what I did my thesis on.

Overall, I most prefer a combination of tools - Java, C and Fortran.

People moan about Java's speed (which usually is VM startup), they bitch about its inconsistencies (I'll agree the whole "no operating overloading" "except we overloaded + for String" is annoying), but it's a pretty good language.

C is just nice and clean to work with. You can do pretty good obfustication (second only to perl) but written well and with good style (i.e. read The C Programming Language) it's fantastic.

Fortran, oh god, the language is just written syntactically so it's frustrating. But it does some neato maths stuff that I enjoy, and no, Matlab etc didn't cut it for what I wanted to do.

All in all, it depends on exactly what one wants to do.

cchen · 15th June 2005, 7:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by titan

have you tried jEDIT yet?

I use this because the interface is very clean and basicly easy to get code down (for a beginner like me), Eclipse just seems like total overkill for a beginner. Sometimes I'll use nedit for quick editing.

O yeah also vim, when I feel like something punishing

View Poll Results: What programming language do you most prefer?
Assembly	5	1.76%
BASIC	4	1.41%
C/C++	71	25.00%
C#	36	12.68%
Cobol	0	0%
Fortran	6	2.11%
Icon	0	0%
Java	52	18.31%
JavaScript	0	0%
Logo	0	0%
MATLAB	1	0.35%
.NET	10	3.52%
Pascal	3	1.06%
Perl	5	1.76%
PHP	42	14.79%
Python	15	5.28%
VBScript	3	1.06%
Visual Basic	20	7.04%
Other (explain)	11	3.87%
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27th January 2005, 3:44 AM	#61
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27th January 2005, 4:53 AM	#62
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28th January 2005, 10:59 AM	#63
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15th June 2005, 11:05 AM	#66
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15th June 2005, 1:20 PM	#68
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15th June 2005, 3:54 PM	#69
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15th June 2005, 4:51 PM	#71
lovepig Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Brisneyland Posts: 664	Who in their right mind would code a whole app in .asm anymore? It's only useful for inline optimisation nowdays... (and 64k demo's ) The madness!!! The maaaaddddneeesssssss!!!!!!....... PHP is superior for web development, C++ for everything else. Turbo Pascal v7.0/Turbo Assembler still holds a special place in my heart though. Last edited by lovepig; 15th June 2005 at 4:55 PM.

15th June 2005, 5:18 PM	#73
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15th June 2005, 5:36 PM	#74
supamodel Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canberra Posts: 1,060	Definate right tool for the job for me. Of course it also depends how one defines "prefer" For my thesis I wrote some pretty heavy-duty numerical stuff in Fortran (for a number of reasons). f90 mixed with f77 and some other random stuff (including real oldschool fortran libraries). For my current job it's PHP with some XML manipulation (heavy-duty web application stuff). Not bad, I do like PHP for this sort of thing (definately prefer it to perl, since I'm going along and fixing up a project with no docco at all). For the job I'm moving to on 1 July I'm back into Fortran with some C. Back to my roots, given it's similar to what I did my thesis on. Overall, I most prefer a combination of tools - Java, C and Fortran. People moan about Java's speed (which usually is VM startup), they bitch about its inconsistencies (I'll agree the whole "no operating overloading" "except we overloaded + for String" is annoying), but it's a pretty good language. C is just nice and clean to work with. You can do pretty good obfustication (second only to perl) but written well and with good style (i.e. read The C Programming Language) it's fantastic. Fortran, oh god, the language is just written syntactically so it's frustrating. But it does some neato maths stuff that I enjoy, and no, Matlab etc didn't cut it for what I wanted to do. All in all, it depends on exactly what one wants to do.