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09-21-2005, 05:31 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Your favourite programming language?
Whats yours?
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09-21-2005, 05:33 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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I would say PHP. It's a handy language for almost any use, or at least proof-of-concept.
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09-21-2005, 05:50 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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TeX
Now seriously: Perl.ReflexNetworks means Happy Clients!
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09-21-2005, 06:35 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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used to do a lot of C. since i got the new job ive only been writing perl and im quite liking it.. a very powerful, yet simple and extensive language
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09-21-2005, 06:49 PM #5Temporarily Suspended
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Mine is....
My favourite languages are PHP and PERL
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09-21-2005, 07:02 PM #6Web Developer
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PHP, since I'm fluent in it.. I'm starting to like Python though.
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09-21-2005, 07:11 PM #7Chief Penguin Chaser
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Hrm.. My favorite would have to be HTML
j/k
I like PHP and (Im trying to learn Python.. but havent really started getting into it in depth yet)
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09-21-2005, 10:21 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Python or C++.
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09-21-2005, 10:44 PM #9the cloud is a lie
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C all the way, baby!
Not that I get to do much of it any more
Now it's mostly C++, Java, PHP, Perl yada yada yada
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09-21-2005, 11:09 PM #10Disabled
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PHP for sure. I know 8 different languages and PHP is the most fun as well as most solid scripting language.
C++ is the best compiled application language.
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09-22-2005, 02:39 AM #11Aspiring Evangelist
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For most things I like to use either java or some form of ML.
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09-22-2005, 03:44 AM #12Junior Guru
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php cause my perl scripts like:
!#usr/bin/perl
print "hello, world";
and it out puts internal server error 500.
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09-22-2005, 08:11 AM #13Web Hosting Guru
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PHP, Ruby and Python.
PHP because i know it the best and Python and Ruby because I love the simplicity and style of the code.
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09-22-2005, 09:27 AM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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Perl for structured and Ruby for OO ones
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09-22-2005, 09:54 AM #15Web Hosting Guru
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C++ and PHP, though I use whatever language suits the task at hand best, if I have a choice.
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09-22-2005, 10:34 AM #16Web Hosting Guru
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heh dont laugh but right now my favorite language is blitz basic becuase lately I've been spending more time making downloadable games than web applications. bbasic allows you to import c and asm routines for heavy lifting but abstracts all of the annoying HDC type code away in simple data types like Timage. It's also faily OO (although it could use some work in that department).
I do like PHP for websites mainly because of the price tag however we use cold fusion and java at my enterprise level day job website. I have written lots of C++ which is really only as good as the libraries you use with it. I'm not a big fan of windows.h or stdlib.h but I'd be happy to write STL code for the rest of my life if it played better with GUI operating systems.
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09-22-2005, 01:29 PM #17Hail Eris !
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I do php for living but get the most kick out of bash scripting
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09-22-2005, 01:37 PM #18WHT Addict
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My personal favorite is LISP.
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09-22-2005, 01:43 PM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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I never thought I would say this, but I believe Java would have to be my favourite language right now. Coming from a long tradition of C and C++, and spending a good deal of that time sneering at many elements of Java, I have changed my mind. The asthetic appeals to me, as well as many of the extremely high quality open source projects on offer (Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, ActiveMQ, all of the Apache projects and the list goes on). It can seem like a never ending climb atop a mountian of APIs but the view appears to be very good once you get atop it.
I seem to change my mind depending on what I've been learning most recently. Chronologically I think my travels were: Basic, 6502 and 68000 assembler, Pascal, Fortran, Modula2, C, Perl, TCL, C++, Awk and now Java. I've peeked at Ruby, C# and Python, and I am not going to count shell scripting. Often I find myself wanting to rewrite old APIs in languages that impress me, just to see whether it's sexier, I am pretty certain that isn't a productive habit.
As experimental languages go, D and Cω are pretty neat.Matt DeMaere
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09-22-2005, 02:31 PM #20Newbie
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Originally posted by Content-Type.com
PHP for sure. I know 8 different languages and PHP is the most fun as well as most solid scripting language.
C++ is the best compiled application language.
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09-22-2005, 02:49 PM #21Web Developer
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maddudemike, are you accessing it via the web?
You need to add
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
before outputting any content
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09-22-2005, 03:02 PM #22Newbie
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Sorry, still laughing at the post I quoted in my last post.
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09-22-2005, 04:18 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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I've done a bit of everything (even -- COBOL), but these days, my favorite for the different types of things that are part of my job :
1. Web development
PHP almost exclusively; although I am slowly warming up to Python.
2. "Classic" development (but I haven't done any of this in a few years)
Java & C#
3. Quick one-liner scripts in Linux
PHP, but I'm moving away from that and more into Python
4. Database modeling
XML -- nothing better out there, really.
I've dabbled in almost everything -- and am certified in C++ (but haven't had the opportunity to use it professionally). The one thing that I did but didn't enjoy was Visual Basic 6. I still don't like it (for personal reasons -- so please don't start flaming).
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09-22-2005, 04:21 PM #24Newbie
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so please don't start flaming
Just kidding. We all are entitled to our likes and dislikes. If it's personal especcially.
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09-22-2005, 04:41 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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"The fact that people are entitled to their personal opinions, and they might not agree with yours" <-- this concept sometimes gets lost in WHT, which is why I added the don't flame thing.