What is YOUR favourite coding language?

[Raavgo]

Hey Guys,
as mentioned above I would like to know what coding languages are regularly used by you and why.

In my case it is simple C, because I can bend every piece of code exactly to my will, and because
I love to code programs for microcontrollers.

[Kulverstukas]

I mostly use python for daily tasks. I use python more than any other language, because it is so easy and writing scripts is very quick, to automate daily tasks and whatnot.

Second would be Java. I use java almost as much as I do python.

[kenjoe41]

Personally, when am in a hacking adventure and i need a quick and dirty code write up for the job, Python is my pizza guy. When it comes to applications that might have a longer lifetime on the desktop and have a bit of complexity, i dail up C++.

[rasenove]

C++, it's the only one I've learned. Here's why,
* Flexibility, so many ways to do so many things. The possibilities are endless (just what a control freak needs), literally
* Am addicted to high performance
* Can make hardcore GUI
* Can be used to solve almost  any type of problem and can be done with style
* Gave me many programming concepts
* Pointers and classes aren't a hassle to me
* Classes
etc...

Still getting deeper into it but am having hard time buying the time for big projects.

[Snayler]

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Seriously, I love Python, but I'm also interested in learning C++ and Java.

[vezzy]

* Flexibility, so many ways to do so many things. The possibilities are endless (just what a control freak needs), literally

It's basically either write C with Classes or C++. "There's more than one way to do it" isn't something one should strive for necessarily, look what came out of it in Perl. A control freak? Surely a control freak would desire one clean solution and panic at variance.

* Am addicted to high performance

In that case, go code in C/ASM.

* Can make hardcore GUI

So there's GUI libraries. Fascinating.

* Can be used to solve almost  any type of problem and can be done with style

Congratulations, what you have is known as a Turing complete language.

* Gave me many programming concepts

Perhaps a little too much, to the point of becoming baroque.

* Pointers and classes aren't a hassle to me

C++'s abstract data types mean you hardly need pointers as much as you do in C. As for classes, well... you'll have plenty of them.

* Classes

I'm not sure why a language having classes is necessarily a good thing.

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Anyway. Holy shit, you guys are like a bunch of lifeless enterprise programmers. C++? Java? Oh well.

My favorite is Urbit.

[WirelessDesert]

My favorite is Urbit.

Well my favorite is Malbolge.




Ok seriously, my favorite is Frink, it's awesome for conversion, physics, math, blabla.

[Kulverstukas]

Well my favorite is Malbolge.

Pffff.... my fav of all time is lolcode

[vezzy]

In all honesty, it's Python and C for me.

Currently I'm also dabbling with Java, even though it's not particularly enjoyable.

Otherwise after I'm done what I really want to do is learn some languages with more unconventional paradigms. Like Lisp, Haskell and Prolog.

Especially Lisp.

[ande]

PHP for short lifespan or dev/testing stuff, C++ for larger projects that needs to be native. But in all honesty I write in a lot of weird shit when its needed. PHP is my first go-to language tho.

[Snayler]

Pffff.... my fav of all time is lolcode

Lol that's a funny language!

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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
Also, Moo mOo MoO

[halfblood]

Id say Visual Basic and C#. Tho really starting to like Python, coz of how i can get loads of stuff done in  a few lines as compared to other scripting languages. Iv been coding in PHP for the longesf time though.

[kenjoe41]

Id say Visual Basic and C#. Tho really starting to like Python, coz of how i can get loads of stuff done in  a few lines as compared to other scripting languages. Iv been coding in PHP for the longesf time though.

OK, i see you are doing python and PHP else i was gonna comment on how OS constrained you are with Visual Basic n C#.

[halfblood]

OK, i see you are doing python and PHP else i was gonna comment on how OS constrained you are with Visual Basic n C#.

I actually love the .Net languages coz those were the first i learnt.

[vezzy]

OK, i see you are doing python and PHP else i was gonna comment on how OS constrained you are with Visual Basic n C#.

Technically, you're "OS-constrained" with Python too. There's a whole bunch of API and library methods that are limited to Unix-like systems, although a Windows programmer can do just fine, too.

Additionally, a Unix programmer will do just fine as well with C# and even Visual Basic (although you have to be a world class lunatic, moron or both to use it) thanks to the highly developed Mono runtime environment.

Banshee Media Player and Smuxi are written in C#. Whether you should use .NET in Unix environments is a different matter and quite subjective.