Comments on: Open Thread: What’s Your Favorite Programming Language?

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:30:45 +0000

The only two real programming languages: solder and assembly code. Why assembly code? Memory is the most expensive part of an embedded microcontroller. Assembly code miminizes that. Processor speed uses up power. Low-power equipment uses less power if you write code in assembly. The difficulty in writing assembly code encourages fast, tight code resulting in fast applications.

By: pjach

pjach — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:34:51 +0000

xBase (Clipper / (x)Harbour). Simple & powerfull.

By: Bruce M. Axtens

Bruce M. Axtens — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:17:23 +0000

I’ve been working for ‘The Protium Project’ for about two years now and have done serious stuff in Compaq Visual Fortran, Microsoft C/C++, ObjectAda and GNAT, MASM32, Perl (with ActiveState’s PDK), VB6, and VBScript.

I really like Protium itself. Very powerful and expressive.

I’ve always has a soft spot for SNOBOL. Newer languages aren’t necessarily better and SNOBOL’s pattern matching will always make Regular Expression look lame.

Other favourites: Modula-2, Tcl, Mouse, Clipper (I still do maintenance programming in that), Euphoria (now open-source with a translate-to-C option) and SIL’s CC.

I’d like to learn (not in any order or priority): Forth, Dylan, Eiffel, Mumps, D and xblite.

I don’t think any languages suck. Mind you, I haven’t found a good use for most eso-langs. And for some weird reason, I’ve always found Java impenetrable.

By: sar

sar — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:51:59 +0000

cfml.

By: Devon Burriss

Devon Burriss — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:34 +0000

CFML

By: chalama

chalama — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:40:11 +0000

i love using C# with ASP.Net and ofcourse i am going to learn and focus on using f# as well that is coming out from Microsoft

By: harry

harry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:55:45 +0000

i do coldfusion, php, asp and c. but i love more coldfusion…

By: Adam Tuttle

Adam Tuttle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:08:26 +0000

Better late than never. Another ColdFusion programmer checking in. Can’t beat it for R.A.D. and the Framework & RIA community is so awesome it can be overwhelming!

By: J.J. Merrick

J.J. Merrick — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:50:56 +0000

@JonRowett FWIW I am a long time WWD reader and have even have my applications (Spot-On to be precise) mentioned on WWD (written in ColdFusion none the less). I read the blog post and added my 2 cents… only later to see someone had posted it to their CF blog and invited some people to add their 2 cents. Far from ballot stuffing and if you would like go tell a few people on your blog to post here also.

By: sidhart

sidhart — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:42:52 +0000

Lisp no doubt ..its fun in a way….
Java to pay bills :)

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:56:35 +0000

I use PHP the most now. It’s handy for web stuff, but I don’t like it very much. My favorite of all times is Perl. This is the language that I truly love and use any opportunity to program in. Beautiful.

With that, I have to admit, that it’s been a long while since I learned a new programming language. Back in college days it wasn’t a month without playing with something new, but these days I don’t have the time (and sometimes I lack the will too). I wish I experimented more.

By: kger

kger — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:30:00 +0000

I’ve done a lot of work in Progress 4GL over the last several years and have really enjoyed it.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:38:50 +0000

Perl mostly using CGI::Application framework with the rest of LAMP pack and of course JavaScript for AJAX stuff. Must admit that I have loads of fun with C# (apart from Halo and keyboards - only good thing from M$) on college.

By: Rahul Jain

Rahul Jain — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:19:20 +0000

PowerBuilder! It still rocks.

By: oubiwann

oubiwann — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:55:08 +0000

Python! Without question :-) I’ve been coding since 1981 and have worked with and coded in numerous languages. For the past 9 years, python has remained at the top of my list. For the past 5 years, I’ve made a living just being able to write in the highly concurrent async networking framework of twisted python…

It’s not a job nor a language: it’s a passion.

By: Caroline in Vail

Caroline in Vail — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:03:54 +0000

I started out as an artist and visual designer.. now forging ahead with some programming. ONly ever tried PHP.. but I have to admit I hate it.

What’s the easiest, most intuitive programming language to learn? Is there a better thread for this?