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View Poll Results: favorite programming language?
Asm 19 10.73%
C 67 37.85%
C++ 36 20.34%
C# 8 4.52%
Java 15 8.47%
Javascript 6 3.39%
Perl 30 16.95%
PHP 33 18.64%
Ruby 13 7.34%
Python 39 22.03%
Shell 36 20.34%
Awk 15 8.47%
Others: Tcl, Erlang, Haskell, Ocaml, D, Forth ... 25 14.12%
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Old 13th April 2009
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... I was chatting with a fellow whose language of choice was COBOL...
I have never met anyone who admitted to even like COBOL let alone that being their language of choice!
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Old 13th April 2009
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Shocking, I know.
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Maybe the guy gets paid by the byte of code written? xD


(Lisp programmers seem to be rarer these days )
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Old 24th June 2009
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I originally voted for Java, that's what I use most often because it is so easy and good at doing a lot of things. Now, Haskell is my favorite. But of course, it's really all about the task at hand.

Java: my goto language for most software projects
Perl: for scripting stuff beyond [12] line bash scripts
C: because it's the only way to do the job sometimes, and I have a secret systems programming fetish
Haskell: the SEXIEST language I've ever met, I wish I could use it more...
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Old 6th October 2010
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I prefer Lisp (more specifically Scheme in Racket, former PLT), but I also enjoy the syntaxical challenges Erlang gives me. Done a little C work but didn't bother much with it.

Completely hate and disgust Java
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I voted for Python because (for me, at least) it separates the problem from the language really well...i.e. I can focus on the problem and the language doesn't get in my way.

I do quite a bit of shell scripting in my daily work (bash and ksh, mostly), I love C and use it as often as my workload requires, and I find functional languages enlightening and interesting but mostly irrelevant to my needs.

I have literally stopped a job interview and left at the mention of .NET/Java's role in the position I was interviewing for (I wouldn't have shown up if I knew ahead of time that they'd be involved!).
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Everything should be done in assembly language.
It almost always is. It's just that most people don't realize it

Sorry to revive dead threads tonight but came back and saw lots of familiar nicks and wanted to say HELLO to everyone!
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I just love C. You can do whatever you want. Just name it!
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Yay Python is second
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As an admin I dealt with Shell scripting so far and intend to master it down the line alongside occasional Perl which I never managed to get a tight hold.
Though I just promised myself that I will relearn to code clean in C like I did in my college days.

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Rexx and NetRexx are my favorite languages.
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For many quick and dirty tasks php proves to be as versatile a tool as perl or python. Just opening a file, splitting lines into individual fields, cleaning up the data and adding it all into a database takes a few minutes max.
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Default Programming language I like and use!

FreeBasic
Nice fast compiler, language has many many features and is backward compatible
with some older versions of Ms basic etc. Language provides openGl support as
well as other 2d and 3d game developement graphics and animation. Works flawlessly
on Linux & Windows distros. Would be curious to see if it can be ported to BSD's.

I program with basic for fun these days, realize it is not really cross platform and there
exist many differences in dialects which cause porting problems. After years of writing batch
files (on mainframes using Ed!) insuring power plant simulations meet ANSI requirements,
I find FreeBasic fun and gets the job done fast for personal use.

Also like Fortran, C, and shell scripts, although i need more study in all of them.

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Old 27th January 2014
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Adding yet another cul-de-sac to this thread.

For the last few days, I have been looking at functional programming idioms which can be used in many languages -- think sprinkling Lisp-isms to all coding.

For those interested, Perl is a good candidate for functional programming, & perhaps the best tome of the subject is Mark Jason Dominus' free work:

http://hop.perl.plover.com/

...which is still available in dead tree form:

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Order-P...her+order+perl

Enjoy!

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I prefer C++, especially with new standards and just want to start learning functional paradigm with Haskell
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Talking html != programming

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It depends on the context whether or not I would call HTML a programming
language. If I was talking to my mom about it or something, who is not a
programmer at all, then for all practical purposes it's a programming language.
I'm guilty here, at least in the past. The colloquially accurate term you're
looking for is "coding" This allows you to maintain professionally accurate
discourse without compromising populist appeal.

Sometimes it is easier to allow a luddite to run off with their very confused
sense of technology rather than combat their cognitive dissonance. Dissonance
originating in the need to distance themselves from technology whilst making an
effort to solve a technological problem. This is a tragically missed opportunity and failure of the technically literate, though it is inevitable.

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Words are just tools used to communicate. They don't determine what's real or
unreal. You guys look at the words "programming language" and think that it has
some kind of inherent reality, but it only means what the person using it
intends for it to mean, no more, no less.
The term "programming language" does indeed have an agreed upon inherent
reality, which is very useful when working in mass to solve highly technical
dilemmas.

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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post Every word has a fixed definition,
otherwise it would be impossible to communicate.
Definitions are only fixed by
convention, and we don't have to behave according to convention if we don't want
to. Not to mention it's never certain whether one person's definition is exactly
the same as another's. Misunderstandings happen all the time due to this.
Here's a joke:
A descriptivist was taking an evening stroll with his lady whereupon they happened by some six
descriptivists beating up a prescriptivist. The girlfriend exclaims "Aren't you
going to do something!??" To which our intrepid descriptivist replies "No, I'm
sure six are enough."

Matt, you are taking descriptivist linguistic philosophy into a bar full of
prescriptivism. I say prescriptivism rather than prescriptivists, because in
fact most folks around here are really only concerned with colloquial language
so long as it gets the point across. However, the application and adherence to
prescriptivism within our chosen field of expertise (not linguistic philosophy)
is not something to take lightly nor get combative about. You must adhere to
agreed upon technical terminology in order to be successful among your
peers within a technical field.

HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language, like xml or tex, it
has no programmatic features. HTML may be expressed as a subset of xml, but this
is not the case with tex. Javascript and PHP are often used to add programmatic
functionality to the hypertext markup of plaintext and in such a case might in fact,
be referred to as programming, however html coding by itself may not accurately
be labeled programming as html is not a programming language. These distinctions
are fundamental to the communication of nuanced technical concepts within the field of computer science. To define technical terminology as some wishy washy application
of descriptivism is not only a pox on the field of both linguistic philosophy
and computer science, it is arguably a foolish attempt to undermine the
entirety of professional communication.

To wit, might I recommend you vote for perl?

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HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language, like xml or tex, it
has no programmatic features.
TeX has variables, upon which simple arithemetic operations can be performed, it has conditional tests, and looping ... are these not programmatic features? In fact, on page 217 of the TeXbook the author says
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Let's close this chapter by presenting a few simple examples that show how TeX can actually be used as a primitive programming language, ...
Now, that's not to say that if I had to calculate pi to a zillion digits, that TeX would be the language of choice to do it, though it sure would make the answer look nice.
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Agree!
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I stand corrected.
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I like to read about Common Lisp (the books I have are thoughtful and well written); I like Rich Hickey's talks on Clojure; Python is there to get little things done quickly or access BIG libraries in a (relatively) simple way; but I've got ten years of VHDL burned into my brain so Ada seems kind of natural (syntactically).

I'm surprised the OpenBSD community [seemingly] has no interest in Ada.
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